of England to Geneva in the beginning of Q. Maries reign and there joined with Joh. Knox as quiet a spirit as himself that was the firebrand of his country of Scotland c. The truth is Goodman was a most violent Nonconformist and for rigidness in opinion he went beyond his friend Calvin who remembers and mentions him in his Epistles 1561. There was no man more ready than he as Knox was for Scotland to oppose in the beginning of Q. Eliz. the settlement of the Ch. of England according to the way used in the time of K. Ed. 6. What his preferments were when the said Queen came to the crown and where if any they were unless at Chester or in the county I know not Sure I am that when Sir Hen. Sydney was Deputy of Ireland and had much to do with the popish rebels there Goodman shewed his faithful diligence in that service His works are these How superiour powers ought to be obey'd of their subjects and wherein they may be lawfully by Gods word be disobey'd and resisted Genev. 1558. in tw c. W. Whittyngham hath a preface to it The first blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women Printed beyond Sea 1558. oct wherein Qu. Mary is called a wicked woman traitress bastard Proserpine c. But most of his doctrines in the said two books being destructive to the sacred persons of princes and their state and government were not only condemned by the Episcopal Clergy of England in the time of Q. Elizab. and after but also by the judgment and decree of the University of Oxon past in their convocation held 21. Jul. 1683. Nay The first blast of the trumpet c. was esteemed by all especially the R. Catholicks a wicked seditious and base book and not fit to be taken into the hands of a Christian and the rather for this reason because as a Poet of that time saith No Queen in her Kingdom can or ought to sit fast If Knocks or Goodmans books blow any true blast He hath also written A commentary on Amos This I have not yet seen Nor can I say any thing else of him only that when he laid on his Death-bed at Chester year 1602 in sixteen hundred and two he was visited by Mr. Jam. Vsher afterwards Archb. of Armagh at what time he came from Ireland into England to buy books for Dublin Library several of whose stories he heard with great delight which he would afterwards when an ancient man repeat to his friends He the said Goodman died that year and was as I have been informed by some of his relations buried in the Church of St. Werberg in Chester His sometimes friend and crony Job Parkhurst hath an Epigram upon him which you may take instead of an Epitaph Nemo bonus Servator ait sed solus Olympum Qui regit is bonus est Gudmane nemo bonus Yet an English Presbyterian who saith that Goodman was a learned Scotch Divine was according to his name good and holy WILLIAM HARRYS became Fellow of Lincoln Coll. about 1567. being then Bach. of Arts Afterwards taking the degree of Master he left the Coll. his friends religion and the little all he had and went to the English College then newly erected at Doway where spending divers years in the study of Theology was at length made a Priest Afterwards returning to his native country to serve the afflicted Catholicks and gain Proselytes lived there several years and composed a large volume intit The Theatre or Mirrour of the most true and ancient Church of Great Britaine founded by Apostolical men and propagated from generation to generation even to our time by most holy Doctors and Catholicks in 10 books What else he wrote I find not not any thing material of him besides year 1602 only that he died in England in sixteen hundred and two Contemporary with him was Thomas Marshall Bach. of Arts 1562. and about that time Fellow of the said college but soon after leaving his Fellowship he went to Lovaine where he entred into the Society of Jesus Afterwards he went to Doway where he spent 9 years in reading and explaining Philosophy and at length became Confessor to the English coll at Rome where he died in 1589. leaving behind him the character of a learned person HAYWORD TOWNSHEND eldest Son of Sir Hen. Townshend Knight Justice of Chester by Susan his first Wife daughter of Sir Rowland Hayward of London Knight was a Shropshire man born became a Gentleman Commoner of St. Maries Hall about the beginning of the year 1590. took one degree in Arts being about that time a Student in the Municipal Law in Lincolns-Inn and was afterwards a Barrester In 1601. he was elected a Burgess for Bishops Castle in his own country to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 27. Oct. the same year where shewing himself an observing man made an Historical collection of the proceedings therein to which adding other collections for three Parliaments preceeding viz. 1. For that which began 4. Feb. 1588. 2. For that which began 19. Feb. 1592. and thirdly for that which commenc'd 9. Feb. 1597. he made a compleat collection in folio At length when the press was open and the author had been dead many years his labours were published under this title Historical collections or an exact account of the proceedings of the four last Parliaments of Q. Elizabeth wherein is contained the compleat Journals both of Lords and Commons taken from the original records of their Houses As also the more particular behaviours of the worthy Members during all the last notable sessions c. Lond. 1680. fol. In the title of which book the publisher hath set down Heywood instead of Hayward Townshend whose time of death tho unknown to me yet sure I am that he died without Issue some years before 1623. See more in Will. Monson under the year 1606. In 1681. was published in octavo a book intit The connexion being choice collections of some remarkable passages in K. James his reign c. which may supply the vacancy between Townshend and Rushworths collections but who the author of it was I cannot tell 'T is a trite thing WILLIAM FULBECK a younger Son if I mistake not of Thom. Fulbeck who died in his Mayoralty of the City of Lincoln 1566. was born in that City particularly as it seems in the parish of St. Benedict wherein his Father lived and died became a commoner of St. Albans Hall in 1577. aged 17. admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 23. January 1579. took the degree of Bach. of Arts two years after and then translated himself to Glocester Hall Where continuing a severe Student till he had taken the degree of M. of Arts and had compleated it by standing in the Act 1584. he went to Greys-Inn in Holbourn near to London where he addressed himself to the study of the Municipal Laws and as 't is said had
annotations thereon by Joh. Bale who hath added thereunto of his own A register of the names of English Writers whom the second part of his work De Scriptorib Britanniae shall comprehend Principum ac illustrium aliquot eruditorum in Angliâ virorum Encomia Trophaea Genethliaca Epithalamia c. Lond. 1589. qu. Published by Tho. Newton of Cheshire These are all the Books composed by him that are published Those that he left behind him in MS. are these following Collectaneorum volumen primum Collections from various Authors viz. from Chronologies ancient Charters Leiger-Books Histories Annals publick and private Writings c. Written with Lelands own hand mostly in Latin in folio containing 913 pages and all collected from MSS. and nothing from Authors that were then Printed There are in this Book many needless additions and illustrations put in by Will. Burton of Lindley whom I shall anon mention who hath written some part of the life of Leland before and has made a useful index to it Collect. vol. 2. Collections from various Authors in MS. viz. Chronologies Annals c. in fol. containing 382. pages Collect. vol. 3. Containing the Catalogues of MSS. in the Libraries of several religious Houses Cathedrals Colleges c. Collections also from Monkish Authors concerning the foundations restaurations c. of religious places and other matters of considerable moment In p. 117 is part of an Itinerary through Devonshire and p. 127 c. is something of Kent In p. 149 c. is something of Herefordshire and p. 204 of Lincolnshire Afterwards follow the meaning and original of words from several old Dictionaries This vol. contains in writing under Lelands hand 287 pages in fol. and hath at the end his New-years-gift to K. Hen. 8. Collect. vol. 4. Containing the lives and characters of most of the eminent Writers of England written in Latin with Leland's own hand an 1546. and containeth 354 pages in fol. One or more Copies of this Book are in private hands An Itinerary throughout most parts of England In five volumes in qu. This Iter was began about 38. H. 8. Dom. 1538 and the volumes were written with his own hand but by the negligence of those who have had the custody of them after the Authors death most of them have taken wet and are not legible About the Year 1631. Will. Burton before-mentioned caused all the said five volumes to be transcribed into one folio which with the originals were by him soon after given to the publick Library of Oxon. Collections concerning English Families and their originals of relations of matters of antiquity from divers Persons of Towns and religious Houses which he accidentally found in record or by tradition of Rivers in several Counties and also collections from various MSS. c. All which are contained in two quartoes under Leland's hand writing and go under the names of the sixth and seventh volumes of his Itineraries and stand and are mix'd with the other five in the Archives of the publick Library Collectiones ex antiquissimis authoribus desumptae quae ad Britanniam spectant MS. in Cotton ' s Library under Julius C. 6. Codrus sive liber contra Polydorum Virgilium de erroribus in scriptis suis MS. An exemplar of which I have seen Naenia in mort Hen. Duddelegi Dudley Equitis MS. in qu. Bononia Gallo-Mastix in laudem victoris feliciss Hen. 8. Anglici Francici Scottici c. MS. in qu. With other things which you may see in Balcus and Pitseus All which MSS. and collections with many other matters of moment were after Leland's death taken by command from Ed. 6 into the custody of Sir John Cheek Tutor to the said King who not long after gave the four tomes or vol. of his collections before-mention'd to Humph. Purefoy Esq afterwards of the Privy Council to Queen Elizabeth in the North parts of England whose Son Tho. Purefoy of Barwell in Leicestershire giving them to Will. Burtâ—n of Lyndley in the same County in the Year 1612 came many Years after by his gift when he had made use of them in compiling his Description of Leicestershire to the Bodlcian or pub Library at Oxon together with the Itinerary in five with the other two quartoes where they yet in the Archives of that Library remain As for some other of his Collections they came after the death of Sir John Cheek into the hands of Will Lord Pagit and Sir Will. Cecyll but to whom from them I find not Perhaps among the said Collect. were those that came afterwards into Sir Rob. Cotton's hands and the Itinerary into those of Will. Burton before-mention'd Howsoever it is sure I am that several eminent Antiquaries have made use of them especially Joh. Bale in his second edition of British Writer but not in the same words that Leland wrot For as he delivered things impartially and in smooth language so Bale quite contrary and full of scurrilities Camden also though now and then he doth mention his Author Leland yet he made considerable use of his Collections in the composing of his Britannia Sir Will. Dugdale hath perused them several times and made great use of them in his Antiquities of Warwickshire and in his volumes called The Baronage of England but withal quotes him honestly for every thing that he hath taken from them To conclude this great Antiquary J. Leland dying on the 18 day of April in Fifteen hundred fifty and two year 1552 was buried in the Church of St. Michaels in le Querne in London Which Church having been situated near to the old cross in West-cheap and not far from the East part of St. Paul's Cathedral was totally burnt down in the grand conflagration an 1666. So that soon after its Parish being united to another the foundation of the said Church was level'd and pitched with Stones as the rest of the street adjoining was and at the East-end where stood the Altar or thereabouts was erected a Conduit of stone to serve the inhabitants of the neighbourhood with water JOHN CLERKE who is reported by a learned Author to be descended from famous and noble lineage was educated in Grammaticals Logicals and Philosophicals among the Oxonians for a time but in what House I cannot as yet tell Afterwards he travell'd into several Countries fell into the company and acquaintance of Rich. Paice mention'd under the Year 1532. studied together in Italy and contracted between them such a faithful and constant friendship that the like could not be read in any Author All things were in a manner common between them and what was by either read or observed was forthwith communicated to each others great advantage After his return to his native Country he was highly esteemed for his accomplishments especially for his exact knowledge in the Latin French and Italian Tongues Whereupon being taken into the service of Thomas the great and mighty Duke of Norfolk was by him made his Secretary a
Ch. Ch. by the players in their gowns for they were all Scholars that acted among whom were Miles Windsore and Thom. Twyne of C. C. C. before the Queen came to Oxon was by them so well liked that they said it far surpassed Damâ—n and Pythias than which they thought nothing could be better Likewise some said that if the Author did proceed to make more plays before his death he would run mad But this it seems was the last for he lived not to finish others that he had laying by him He also wrot Several Poems in Engl. and Latine Those that speak English are for the most part extant in a Book intit The paradise of dainty devises Lond. 1578. qu. Which Book being mostly written by him was published by Hen. D'isle a Printer with other Mens Poems mix'd among them Among which are those of Edward Vere Earl of Oxford the best for Comedy in his time who died an aged Man 24 June 1604. Will. Hunnys a crony of Tho. Newton the Lat Poet who hath about nine Copies in the said collection Jasp Heywood Nich. Lord Vaux Franc. Kynwelmersh who hath about 8 Copies therein R. Hall R. Hill T. Marshall Tho Churchyard a Salopian Lodowyke Lloyd one Yâ—oop and several others At length this noted Poet and Comedian R. Edwards made his last Exit before he arrived to his middle age year 1566 in Fifteen hundred sixty and six or thereabouts When he was in the extremity of his sickness he composed a noted Poem called Edwards Soulknil or the Soules knell which was commended for a good piece One George Turbervile in his Book of Epitaphs Epigrams Songs Sonnets c. which I shall hereafter mention printed at Lond. the second time 1570 hath an Epitaph on his death made by Tho. Twyne of C. C. Coll. and another by himself ROBERT POINTZ to whom Alderliâ— in Glocestershire where his Family was gentile gave breath and Wykehams School near to Winehester education was admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1554 took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being confer'd upon him in 1560 but went away before he compleated it by standing in the Comitia Afterwards leaving his Relations Country and all future expectation for Religion sake settled at Lovaine in Brabant as it seems became a Student in Divinity and published Testimonies for the real presence of Christ's body and blood in the blessed Sacrament of the Altar set forth at large and faithfully translated out of six ancient Fathers which lived far within six hundred years Lov. 1566. oct Certain notes declaring the force of those testimonies and detecting sometimes the Sacramentaries false dealing Printed with the former book Miracles performed by the Eucharist This last with other things that he hath written as 't is said I have not yet seen An 100 years after this R. Pointz lived another of both his names and of the same Family a writer also and a Knight of the Bath whom I shall remember hereafter ANTHONY BROWNE Son of Sir Weston Browne of Abbesroding and of Langenhoo in Essex Knight by Eliz. his Wife one of the Daughters of Will. Mordant of Turwey in Bedfordsh Esq Son of Rob. Browne by Mary his Wife Daughter and Heir of Sir Thomas Charlton Son of Rob. Browne of Wakefield in Yorkshire by Joane Kirkham his second Wife Son of another Rob. Browne of the West Country was born in Essex and being made soon ripe for the University was sent thereunto but before he had taken a Degree he was transplanted to the Middle Temple of which after he had been some years an Inner Barrester he was elected summer-Reader 1 o Mariae but did not read till the Lent following In the 2 Year of the said Queens Reign he with several others were by writ called to the Degree of Serjeant at Law and was the antientest of the call and soon after was made Serjeant to the King and Queen In oct 1558. 5. and 6. of Ph. and Mar. he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common-pleas but the said Qu. Mary dying soon after and Elizabeth succeeding she remov'd him thence and placed in his room Sir James Dyer Whereupon A. Browne was made for a time as it seems a Justice of the Common-pleas and soon after one of the Justices of the Common-bench in which dignity he dyed having but an year before his death received the honor of Knighthood from the Queen at the Parliament house Edom. Plowden the famous Lawyer doth give this testimony of him that he was a Judge of a profound genie and great eloquence And all eminent Men of that Age did esteem him as able a Person as any that lived in Qu. Elizabeths time and therefore fit to have obliged posterity by his Pen had not too much modesty laid in the way What he did as to that was concealed and partly published under another name as his Arguments for Marie Queen of Scots her right of Succession to the Crown of England which were published by Joh. Lesley Bishop of Rosse as I shall tell you in Morgan Philipps under the Year 1577. Besides which there is a folio MS. at this day in a private hand entit A discourse upon certain points touching the inheritance of the Crown conceiv'd by Sir Anth. Browne Justice Which Book coming into the hands of Sir Nich. Bacon L. Keeper of England was by him answered and perhaps therein are contained the Arguments before mentioned Our Author Sir Anthony wrot a Book also against Rob. Dudley Earl of Leycester as one reports but what the contents of it are he mentions not At length having always lived a R. Catholick he gave way to fate at his house in the Parish of South-weld in Essex on the 6. of May in Fifteen hundred sixty and seven year 1567 whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church there on the tenth of June following What Epitaph was put over his Grave I know not Sure it is that these verses were made on him several years after his death which may serve for one Elizabetha nonum regni dum transegit annum Gentis Anglorum regia sceptra tenet Antonium rapiunt Maii mala sydera Brownum Legum qui vivus gloria magna fuit On the 9. Nov. in the same Year in which Sir Anthony died Joan his Widow Daughter of Will. Farington of Farington in Lancashire and formerly the Widow of Charles Bothe Esq died and the 22 of the same Month was buried near to the grave of her second husband Sir Anthony before-mentioned who was Nephew to Sir Humph. Browne of the Middle Temple made Serjeant at Law 23. Hen. 8. one of the Justices of the Kings-bench 34. Hen. 8. and continued in that place till 5 Elizab. at which time he died being about 33 Years after he was made a Serjeant WILLIAM SALESBURY a most exact Critick in British antiquities was born of an ancient and gentile Family in Denbighshire spent several year in
Thursday March 2. S. Ceddes day the Lord Brook shot in the left Eye and killed in the place at Lichfield going to give onset upon the Close of the Church he ever having been fierce against Bishops and Cathedrals His bever up and armed to the knee so that a Musket at that distance could have done him but little harm Thus was his Eye put out who about two years since said he hoped to live to see at S. Pauls not one stone left upon another c. This Lord Brook who did often bragg that he should live to see the millinary fools paradice begin in his life time did give occasion by words that he uttered to certain observing persons to think that his death was near viz. that at his going out of Coventry when he went towards Lichfield he give order to his Chaplain that he should preach upon this Text If I perish I perish being the words of Ester in a different but a far better cause Est 4. 16. Also that in a prayer of above an hour long which he conceived before his setting on the Close he was heard to wish that if the cause he was in were not right and just he might be presently cut off using the like expressions to his Souldiers also JOHN BEAUMONT Son of Francis Beaumont one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas in the reign of Qu. Elizabeth was born of and descended from an ancient and noble family of his name living at Gracedieâ— in Leicestershire became a Gent. Com. with his Brethren Henry and Francis in Broadgates hall in the beginning of Lent-term an 1596. aged 14. Whence after he had spent about three years he retired to one of the Inus of Court and afterwards to his native Country where taking to Wife one of the family of Fortescue was at length in 1626. made a Baronet The former part of his life he successfully employed in Poetry and the latter he as happily bestowed on more serious and beneficial Studies And had not death untimely cut him off in his middle age he might have prov'd a Patriot being accounted at the time of his death a person of great knowledge gravity and worth He hath written Bosworth Field A Poem Lond. 1629. oct A taste of the variety of other Poems Printed with the former Poem He hath also made translations into English from Horace Virgil Lucan Persius Ausâ—nius Claudian c. All which were collected together after the authors death by his Son Sir Joh. Beaumont Bt. and were printed with the former Poems in 1629. being then usherd into the world by the commendation-Poems of Tho. Nevill Tho. Hawkyns Benj. Johnson Mich. Drayton Philip King Son of the B. of London c. This Sir John Beaumont the Poet departed this mortal life in the Winter time year 1628 in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and was buried in the Church at Gracedieu leaving behind him a Son named John beforemention'd who died without issue another called Francis afterwards a Jesuit and a third named Thomas who succeeded his brother in his estate and honour As for Francis Beaumont who with his elder brother Sir John came to Broadgates hall in 1596. as I have before told you he must not be understood to be the same with Francis Beaumont the eminent Poet and Comedian for tho he was of the same family and most of his name studied in Oxon yet he was educated in Cambridge and after he had made himself famous over all England for the 50. Comedies and Tragedies which he with Joh. Fletcher Gent. had composed made his last exit in the beginning of March and was buried on the ninth of the same month in 1615 at the entrance of St. Benedicts Chappel within the Abby Church of St. Peter within the City of Westminster As for John Fletcher Son of Rich Fletcher B. of London he was also a Cambridge man and dying of the Plague was buried in the Church or yard of S. Mary Overey in Southwark 29 Aug. 1625. aged 49. Sir Aston Cockaine Baronet hath in his Choice Poems of several sorts c. Pr. 1658. in oct an Epitaph on Mr. John Fletcher and Mr. Philip Massinger who as he saith lye buried both in one grave in St. Mary Overies Church in Southwark yet the register of that Church saith that Massinger was buried in one of the four yards belonging to that Church as I shall tell you when I come to him under the year 1639. Later in time than Sir Jo. Beaumont hath appeared another of both his names who hath written and published Observations upon the Apology of Dr. Hen. More Cambr. 1685. qu. And is at present the Kings prof of Div. there JOHN DENISON who in his time was cried up for an eminent preacher became a Student in Balliol coll at the beginning of the year 1590. and when M. of A. entred into orders preached frequently in these parts was made Chaplain of K. James 1. chief moderator of the Free-School in Reading in Berks and at length Vicar of St. Maries Church there In which last he was succeeded by Tho. Bunbury of Ball. coll but thrust out thence by the Presbyterians in the beginning of the civil Wars Denison was a learned man well read in Theological authors and wrote and published these things following Several Sermons as 1 The Christian Petitioner preached on Act Sunday 7 Jul. 1611. on Nehem. 13. 22. Lond. 1611. qu. 2 The sin against the Holy Ghost at Pauls Cross on Heb. 10. 26 27. Ib. 1611. qu. 3 Christians care for the Souls safety on Mark 8. 36. Lond. 1621. oct 4 Heavenly Banquet or the doctrine of the Lords Supper set forth in seven Sermons on 1 Cor. 11. from verse 23. to 29. Lond. 1619. oct 5 Blessedness of Peacemakers two Sermons on Matth. 5. 9. Lond. 1620. oct 6 The Sinners acquittance before the K. at Greenwich on Isa 53. 4. Lond. 1624. oct 7 Check to curiosity and The safest service two Serm. at Whitehall on Joh. 21. ver 22. Lond. 1624. oct 8 Heavens joy for a sinners repentance on Luke 15. 7. Ibid. 1623. oct c. A threesold resolution concerning earths vanity hells horror and heavens felicity Lond. 1616. oct 4th edit Justification of the gesture of kneeling in the act of receiving the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1619 oct On the two Sacraments Baptism and the Lords Supper Lond. 1621. qu. De confessionis auricularis vanitate adversus Card. Bellarmini Sophismata Ox. 1621. qu. De sigilli confessionis impietate contra Scholasticorum Neotericorum quorundam dogmata disputatio Printed with the former He dyed in the latter end of January and was buried on the first of Feb. in the Church of St. Mary at Reading before mentiond in sixteen hundred twenty and eight He had a Brother or near Kinsman called Stephen Denison D. D. and many years Minister of St. Catherine Kree Church in London who hat published several things of Divinity as the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue
See among the Doctors of Law in 1542. In the month of July I find a Supplicate made for one Roger Haskham to be incorporated M. of A. as he had stood at Cambridge but whether he was incorporated I find it not to stand in the Register having been probably neglected as things of that nature when the Supplicates are set down have frequently been done I take this person to be the same with Reg. Ascham who was born at Kirby wiske in Yorkshire an 1515 educated in S. John's Coll. in Cambridge where he attained to great excellency in the Latin and Greek Tongues took the degree of M. of A. in that University 1537 and was a great Tutor and did much good by his admirable Learning there This Person by the way I must let the Reader know was a passing good Orator had a great faculty in writing Greek Lat. and Engl. Epistles which were not only excellent for matter but for the neatness of the hand-writing adorned with Illumination which we now call Limning in the margin And being the best of all Scholars in his time for those matters he was entertained as an Instructor in them by Prince Edward the Lady Elizabeth and the two Brothers Henry and Charles Dukes of Suffolk In 1544 he succeeded John Cheek in the Oratorship of the University of Cambridge which he performed to the wonder and applause of all and in the Reign of Ed. 6. he accompanied Sir Rich. Mâ—rysine in his Embassy to the Emperor Charles 5. where continuing about three years in which time he became acquainted with many learned men among whom John Sturmius was one he returned upon the news of the death of K. Ed. 6. from whom he had not only received an annual Pension in his absence but also the gift of the Latin Secretariship so that at the present being destitute of convenient maintenance and Friends was by the endeavours of the Lord Paget and Dr. Steph. Gardiner Bish of Winchester made Secretary of the Latin Tongue to Qu. Mary In 1554 he married one Margaret Hâ—w by whom he had a considerable Portion yet notwithstanding that and his Place he lived and died not according to his condition being given to Dicing and Cock-fighting After Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown he was not only continued in his place of Secretary and made Tutor to her for the Greek Tongue but also by her favour was installed Prebendary of Wetwang in the Church of York by the deprivation of George Palmes LL. D. on the eleventh day of March 1559. This Person whose Memory is celebrated to this day among learned men for Oratory Poetry and the Greek Tongue hath written 1 Toxophilus the School or partitions of Shooting contained in two books written 1544 c. Lond. 1571 qu. As in his later days he delighted much in Dicing and Cockfighting so in his younger while at Cambridge in Archerâ— wherein he much excelled 2 The Schoolmaster or a plain and perfect way of teaching Children to understand write and speak the Latin Tongue c. in two Books Lond. 1570 and 1589 qu. 3 A report and discourse of the affairs and state of Germany and the Emperour Charles his Court during certain years while he was there printed in qu. 4 Familiarium Epistolarum libri tres c. Lond. 1577 78. oct 5 Quaedam poemata printed with the Epistles 6 Apol. contra missam ejus praestigias c. printed about 1577 in oct This eminent Scholar R. Ascham died on the 30 of Dec. 1568 and was buried without any funeral Pomp on the 4 of Jan. following in the church of S. Sepulchre without Newgate London leaving behind him this character by a learned person that he inter primes nostrae nationis literas Latinas Graecas stylique puritatem cum eloquentiae laude excoluit An. Dom. 1542. An. 34 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss the same Proct. John Estwyke of Mert. Coll. Will. Pye of Oriel again Elected in the beginning of Easter Term by the Suffrages of the Doctors and Heads of Colleges and Halls Bach. of Arts. May 16. Tho. Neale of New Coll. now in much esteem for his great knowledge in the Greek Tongue Nov. 16. Henry Pendleton of Brasn Coll. In all about 27 and but two that supplicated for that degree who were not admitted Bach. of Law Five this year were admitted Bachelaurs of the Civil Law and but two there were that supplicated for that degree One of them was named Will. Copinger a Civilian of New Coll. but whether he was really admitted I find not This Person who was a Londoner born I take to be the same who was afterwards a Servant to Dr. Steph. Gardiner B. of Winchester and Bearer of the Great Seal before him while he was Lord Chancellour After Gardiner's Death which hapned in 1555 he became one of the Benedictine Monks of Westminster where continuing till Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown was soon after committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where as one saith falling mad died in a short time after I find another Will. Copinger who was M. of A. of this University long before the other man's time who in his Works in MS. which are in Ball. Coll. Library and therefore thought by some to have been of that House did shew himself to be a very pious Divine and a Pronouncer of the men of this World to be vain in whom the knowledge of God reigneth not He wrot 1 De vitiis virtutibus lib. 1. The beginning of which is Vani sunt omnes homines c. 2 Sacramentale quoddam and other things which hath made his name famous to Posterity When he lived or in what Kings Reign he was renown'd for his Learning I cannot tell neither doth Bale himself know Mast of Arts. Jul. 12. Simon Bellâ—stre He was about this time Archdeacon of Colchester occurring by that Title 1545 but whether he succeeded Rob. Aldridge or Hugh Weston in that Dignity I know not Besides him were but eleven more that were admitted Bach. of Div. June 19. Will. Cheadsey of C. C. Coll. Afterwards President of that House and a Writer Three more were admitted and three there were that supplicated for the said Degree among whom was John Marlow or Merlow of Mert. Coll. mention'd under the year 1527. Doct. of both the Laws Oct. 18. Joh. Cottrell of New Coll. This Person who was lately Principal of S. Laurence Hall involv'd afterwards within the limits of Jesus Coll. in the Parish of S. Michael was now Archdeacon of Dorset in the place of one Will. Skipp who occurs Archd. of that place in 1537. He the said Dr. Cottrell was afterwards Vicar General to Paul the first Bish of Bristol did succeed Pol. Virgil in the Archdeaconry of Wells an 1554 or thereabouts being the first year of Qu. Mary at which time Virgil was in Italy among the living In the same year also he was made Prebendary of Tymberscombe in the Church of Wells
Sir Tho. Windebank of Haines hill in the Parish of Hurst in Berks. Knight sometimes one of the Clerks of the Signet and became intimately acquainted with Dr. Will. Laud while he studied in the said Coll. of St. John by whose endeavours when Bish of London he obtained for him of his gracious Master K. Ch. 1. the secretaryship of State in the place of Sir Dudley Carleton Viscount Dorchester deceased to which office he was sworn 15. June 1632 and about that time received the honour of Knighthood Afterwards he became ungrateful to his promoter and much hated by the Puritan for his high acting in his office Which being by that Party made notorious several articles were drawn up against him and presented to that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nov. 1640. Whereupon flying beyond the Seas wrot a Letter to the Lord Chamberlain in his own defence dat at Calais XI Jan. 1640 which was soon after printed When K. Ch. 1. retired to Oxon after Edghill battel Sir Francis returned înto England went to and endeavoured to speak with his Majesty but his Maj refusing to have any communication with him he went beyond the Seas again and died at Paris 1 11 Sept. 1646. Among the Sons he had Sir Thomas Windebank the eldest was one who was of the Privy Chamber to His Majesty and another called Colonel Franc. Windebanke Governor of Blechingdon house in Oxfordshire who for surrendring it to Col. Oliver Cromwell upon first summons about the 24. Apr. 1645 was shot to death in Broken hayes near Oxon whereupon his body was buried in one of the Chancels of the Church of St. Mary Magd. in the North suburb of that City on the third of May following Feb. 11. Sam. Turner of St. Maries hall See among the Masters 1604. 13. Daniel Fairclough Joh. Bery or Bury George Webbe of C. C. Coll. The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Limerick in Ireland Canon Fairclough Bury and Webbe will be mention'd in the second vol. Admitted 177 Mast of Arts. May 17. Thom. Winniff of Exeter Coll. Jun. 20. Thom. Baughe of Ch. Ch. He published a Sermon entit A Summons to judgment on Job 31. 14. Lond. 1614. qu. and perhaps others which is all I know of him only that he was a Cheshire Man born and that in seeking after the Rectory of the Church of St. Sepulcher in London found a sepulcher therein being buried there on which his pleasant friend Tho. Freeman the Poet hath an ingenious Epigram 25. Mich. Boyle Joh. Sandsbury of S. Joh. Coll. Jul. 1. Henry Tilson of Vniv. 10. Robert Johnson of Magd. Jan. 21. Robert Pink of New Coll. Adm. 86. Bach. of Physick Not one was admitted to the said Degree only some to practise Physick among whom were Nov. 28. Henr. Savile M. A. Edm. Deane B. A. Both originally of Merton Coll. now of St. Albans hall Bach. of Div. Dec. 17. Joh. Howson of Ch. Ch. Besides him were but 4 admitted among whom Ralph Ironside of Vniversity Coll. was one Father to Dr. Gilb. Ironside who became Bishop of Bristow an 1660. Doct. of Law Feb. 4. Sampson Hussee of New Coll. He was Brother to Jam. Hussee mention'd in the year before ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Dec. 17. John King John Howson of Ch. Ch. The last of which accumulated and both were afterwards Bishops Feb. 15. Charles Ryves of New Coll. Incorporations Apr. 6. Rob. Dallyngton M. of A. of Cambridge He was born in Northamptonshire educated in Pembroke hall of which he was Greek-Scholar and after became a Schoolmaster in Norfolk where having gained some money he travelled all over France and Italy was exact in his observations and after his return became first Secretary to the Earl of Rutland then one of the Privy Chamber to Prince Charles Master of the Charter-house into the School at which place he brought the custome of Chapter verses or versifying on passages of Holy Scripture and at length a Knight He hath written 1 A survey of the great Dukes state in Tuscany an 1596. Lond. 1605. qu. 2 A method for travel shewed by taking view of France as it stood in the year 1598. printed at Lond. in qu. 3 Aphorismes Civil and Military amplified with authorities and exemplified with history out of the first quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine Lond. 1615. fol. and other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen He died in the latter end of the year 1637 and was buried in the Church or Chappel belonging to the Charter house By his will dated 25. Apr. 1636 and proved 1. March 1637 he gave to the poor People of Geddington in Northamptonshire the place of his nativity 300 l. for the buying of an annual pension of 15 l. per an for their relief At which place in his life time he built a Free-school and was a benefactor in other respects July 16. Walt. Curle M. of A. of Cambridge This Person who was born at Hatfield in Hertfordshire was now Fellow of Peter house in the said University was promoted first in the Church by the Cecillian Family afterwards he became Chaplain to His Majesty Doctor of Divinity Dean of Lichfield in June 1621 upon the death of Dr. Will. Tooker Bishop of Rochester in 1627. upon the translation of Buckridge to Ely translated thence to B. and Wells in 1629 upon the death of Dr. Maw and thence to Winchester upon the removal of his Patron Dr. Neile to York being about that time made Lord Almoner Afterwards he suffered much for the Kings and his own cause was among the Royalists when they were besieged in Winchester whence marching in safety after its surrender for the use of the Parliament lived retiredly at Subberton in Hampshire till the time of his death which hapned in the Spring or Summer time an 1647 leaving then behind him a Widow named Elizabeth and certain Children All that I have yet seen which goes under his name is A Sermon preached at Whitehall 28. Apr. 1622 on Heb. 12. 14. printed in qu. Rich. Boyle M. A. of the same University was incorporated on the same day He was afterwards Archbishop of Tuam in Ireland Richard Parker another M. of A. of that University was also then incorporated Whether he be the same R. Parker who was bred in and became Fellow of Caius College and Author of Sceletos Cantabrigiensis MS. I cannot justly say or the same Richard Parker who was second Son of John Parker first Son of Matthew Parker Archb. of Canterbury which Richard was born at Cambridge 20. May 1577 I cannot also tell Quaere On the same day also were 13 more Masters of that University incorporated among whom Miles Spencer was one and Andrew Perne another the same I suppose who was Proctor of Cambridge 1616. See before in these Fasti an 1553. Aug. 7. Will. Barlow Doct. of Div. of the said University was also then incorporated in the
Physick of Leyden in Holland was then incorporated In the year following he was admitted candidate of the College of Physicians at London afterwards Fellow Censor Anatomy Reader Elector Register and Consiliarius but never President of the said College He hath certain Theses of the Quinsie in print and is stiled by those of his faculty Musarum Apollonis deliciae This Person who was Son of Baldwin Hamey alias de Hame Doctor of Phys of Bruges in Flanders by Sarah his Wife Dau and Heir of Pet. Oeyles of Antwerp Merchant died on the 14. May 1676 aged 76. years and was buried in the middle Isle or Nave of the Church of Chelsey St. Luke near London Feb. 27. Griffin Higgs made D. of D. of the University of Leyden in Holland about three weeks before this time was also then incorporated He was afterwards Dean of Lichfield This year but the day or month appears not was incorporated Doctor of Div. one Hen. Wickham of Kings College in Cambridge He was Son of Will. Wickham Bishop of Winchester was now Archdeacon of York or of the West-riding of Yorkâ—hire which Dignity he had obtained in the latter end of 1623 on the resignation of Dr. H. Hook and Residentiary of the Church there besides Prebendary of Southwell Chaplain in Ord. to K. Char. 1. and Rector of two Churches in Yorkshire In his Archdeaconty succeeded Dr. Rich. Marsh who was afterwards Dean of York Creations Oct. 10. Edm. Manwaring Bach. of Law and a Civilian belonging to the Kings Council in the North parts of England was actually created Doctor of the said faculty He was originally of Allsouls Coll. and as a member thereof took the Degree of Bach. of that fac 1605. Afterwards he was Chancellour of Chester and Father to Sir William Manwaring Serjeant Major to Col. Francis Gamuls Regiment in 1643 against the Forces raised by the Parliament against K. Ch. 1. Nov. 12. Thom. Dacres an Esquires Son of Exeter Coll. was actually created M. of Arts being then about to go with his Majesties Embassador into Foreign parts March 6. Raphael Throckmorton of Ch. Ch. was created M. of A. See among the created Doctors of Div. in 1660. An. Dom. 1630. An. 6. Car. 1. Chanc. William Earl of Pembroke who dying 10. Apr. as Mr. Tho. Allen of Gloc. Hall had several years before predicted Will. Laud D. of D. sometiâ—â—â— President of St. Johns Coll. now Bishop of London was elected into his place the 12. and confirmed the 28. day of the same month Vicechanc. William Smith D. of D. Warden of Wadham Coll. July 17. Proct. Ralph Austen of Magd. Coll. Hen. Stringer of New Coll. Presented Apr. 7. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 10. Edw. Fisher of Brasn June 3. Joh. Eedes of Oriel George Kendall of Ex. Coll. June 3. Hen. Jeanes Will. Durham of New Inn. 14. Hen. Hunt of Pembr Coll. 30. Lorenzo Cary of Ex. Coll. Son of Hen. Viscount Falkland and younger Brother to Lucius July 8. Oliver St. John of Trin. Coll. This Person who was Son of Sir Joh. St. John of Lydâ—ard Tregose in Wilts I set down here not that he was a Person afterwards eminent but only to distinguish him from Oliver St. John Son of Oliv. St. John of Caishoe in Bedfordshire Esq descended from the Family of the Earl of Bullingbrook educated in Catherine Hall in Cambridge afterwards in Lincolns Inn where he was a Counsellour of note especially after he had shewn his parts in arguing the case of Ship-money in behalf of Joh. Hamden Esq who refused the payment of it an 1637. In the year 1640 he was chosen a Burgess for Totnes in Devâ—nshire to serve in the two Parliaments that began that year wherein shewing his activeness and readiness in speaking against several abuses he was first made Sollicitor and afterwards Attorney General purposely to mollifie his humour and to make him have a good opinion of the Kings cause But all God wot operated little or nothing in him as having been posses'd to the contrary by O. Cromwell whose kinswoman Elizabeth Daughter and Coheir of… Cromwell of Vpwood in Huntingdonshire he had before taken to his second Wife So that proceeding very zealously against the Prerogative and all that looked that way was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common-pleas was sent Embassador into the Netherlands an 1652 he being then commonly called Cromwells Dark-lanthorn Chancellour of the University of Cambr. c. and signally antimonarchical till the usurpation of Oliver Cromwell yet notwithstanding was one of the Lords of the other house After his Majesties restauration he being excepted to certain forfeitures which the Parliament then declared he retired to an estate at Long Thorp in Northamptonshire which he before had purchased and resided mostly there till the time of his death which hapned on the last of Dec. 1673 aged 75 years or thereabouts He hath Several speeches Arguments of Law and other things extant July 24. Thomas Barlow Gerard Langbaine of Qu. Coll. The first of these two was afterwards Bishop of Lincolne Oct. 26. Joh Hulett of New Inn. Dec. 16. Thom. Granthan of Hart Hall Quaere Edward Gee of Brasn Jan. 19. Will. Stampe 27. John Toy of Pemb. Coll. Feb. 1. Lisâ—ibon Long of Magd. Hall This Person who was the eldest Son of Will. Long of Stratton in Somersetshire Esq went afterwards to one of the Temples become a Barrister sided with the rout in the time of the rebellion made Master of the Requests and Recorder of the City of London in the Reign of Oliver from whom he received the honour of Knighthood 15. Dec. 1656. He afterwards supplied the place of Speaker in the absence and indisposition of Chaloner Chute Esq in the months of Febr. and March an 1658 but Long being taken with a sudden disease in the last of those two months died on the sixteenth day thereof and Chute died not till the 14. Apr. 1659. As for Long he was esteemed by the Men of those times a Person of great integrity in the profession of the Law and for his particular affection to the service of Oliver Protector and to the Common-wealth Feb. 11. Tho. Widdowes of Magd. Tim. Taylor of Qu. Coll. 17. Rich. Kentish of Hart Hall I take him to be the same Rich Kentish who published a Sermon on Ephes 5. 2. Printed 1649. qu. 19. Thomas Greaves of C. Christi Mar. 3. Nich. Monke of Wadh. Coll. The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Hereford All these Bachelaurs some few excepted will be largely mention'd in another volume Adm. 212. or thereabouts Bach. of Law July 1. Will. Sandbrook of Gloc. Hall Nov. 15. Rich. Napier of Alisouls Coll. 16. Will. Burton of Gloc. Hall lately of Qu. College Admitted 19. Mast of Arts. Apr. 15. John Barret of St. Edm. Hall This Person I here set down not that he was a writer but only to distinguish him from another of both his names and time who was educated in Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards
Ignorance Treachery and Hypocrisie 33 Brief History of Muscâ—via and of other less known Countries lying eastward of Russia as far as Cathay c. Lond. 1682. oct 34 The right of the People over Tyrants printed lately in qu. These I think are all the things that he hath yet extant those that are not are The body of Divinity which my friend calls Idâ—a Theologiae now or at least lately in the hands of the Authors Acquaintance called Cyr. Skinner living in Mark lane London and the Latin Thesaurus in those of Edw. Philipps his Nephew At length this great Scholar and frequent Writer dying in his house at Bunhill near London in a fit of the Gout but with so little pain that the time of his expiring was not perceived by those in the room on the ninth or tenth day of Novemb. 1674 was buried in the grave of his Father who died very aged about 1647 in the Chancel of the Church of S. Giles near Cripplegate London See more of him in Sir Walter Raleigh among the Writers numb 458. He was of a moderate Stature and well proportion'd of a ruddy Complexion light brown hair and had handsome features yet his eyes were none of the quickest When he was a Student in Cambridge he was so fair and clear that many called him the Lady of Christs Coll. His deportment was affable and his gate erect and manly bespeaking courage and undauntedness On which account he wore a sword while he had his sight and was skill'd in using it He had a delicate tuneable voice an excellent ear could play on the Organ and bear a part in vocal and instrumental Musick The Estate which his Father left him was but indifferent yet by his frugality he made it serve him and his Out of his Secretaries Salary he saved 2000 l. which being lodg'd in the Excise and that bank failing upon his Majesties Restauration he utterly lost that sum By the great Fire which hapned in London in the beginning of Sept. 1666 he had a house in Breadstreet burnt which was all the real Estate that he had then left To conclude he was more admired abroad and by Foreigners than at home and was much visited by them when he liv'd in Petty France some of whom have out of pure devotion gone to Breadstreet to see the House and Chamber where he was born c. Creations Jun. 16. Henry Bridgman of Brasnose lately of Oriel Coll. was actually created Master of Arts. He was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man Jul. 30. David Smart of Hart Hall was actually created Master of Arts which is all I know of him An. Dom. 1636. An. 12 Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury Vicechanc. Rich. Baylie D. D. President of S. Johns Coll. and Dean of Salisbury Jul. 22. Proct. Tho. Browne of Ch. Ch. John Good of New Coll. April 27. Bach. of Arts. May 3. John Good Will. Walwyn of S. Joh. Coll. Of the last you may more among the Bach. of Div. 1647. Rich. West of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day See among the created Doctors of Divinity in Dec. 1660. 5. Edm. Gregory of Trin. 24. Christop Bennet of Linc. Coll. June 30. Rob. Wickins of Ch. Ch. Jul. 3. George Laurence of New Inn. 5. Tho. Holyoake of Qu. Coll. Oct. 15. Benj. Wells of S. Albans afterwards of S. Maries Hall and at length of All 's Coll. 20. Jerem. Turner of S. Edm. Hall Nov. 14. Edmund Ludlow of Trin. Coll. This person who was born at Mayden Bradley in Wilts did upon the breaking out of the Rebellion side with the Presbyterians became a Colonel Governour of Wardour Castle in his own Country one of the prime Officers in the Parliament Army and at length sate as one of the Judges when K. Ch. 1. was condemn'd to dye Afterwards he went into Ireland where he was Lieutenant General of the Army appointed by the Parliament and Lord Deputy for a time upon the death of Ireton In the time of Oliver he was a Major General a grand fanatick and a zealous favourer of all such who were anti-monarchical but upon a foresight of the Kings Restauration he fled into a strange land to avoid the halter was at Losanne with Goff Whaley Fare when Lisle was kill'd there in Aug. 1664 and soon after as 't was then said he with his Wife retired to Zurich He was the Son of Sir Hen. Ludlow of Mayden Bradley before mentioned Knight elected a Knight for his Country to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 where he shewed himself an enemy to the King and his party and dying at Mayden Bradley 1660 or thereabouts was there buried By Letters dated at London 19 of Sept. 1689 I was informed that the said Edm. Ludlow who had lived several years in Switzerlandt was daily expected at Westminster with four Deputies from the Cantons to make an Offer to his Majesty K. Will. 3. to raise men in that Country for his service How true this is I know not yet sure I am that the said Ludlow was then in London and that his being there being notoriously known an Address was presented to his Majesty from the House of Commons on the 7 of Nov. following or thereabouts by the hands of Sir Edward Seymour a Member of Parliament that he would be pleased to put out a Proclamation for the apprehending of Col. Ludlow attainted for the Murder of K. Ch. 1. c. Whereupon Ludlow hastning away as soon as he heard of the motion of an Address to the sea side lay almost a Fortnight before he could be accommodated with a good Wind and then returned to Switzerlandt in the year of his age 74 at least In the beginning of March 1690 was published a pernicious Pamphlet entit A Letter from Major Gen. Ludlow to Sir E. S. Seymour comparing the Tyranny of the first four years of K Charles the Martyr with the Tyranny of the four years reign of the late abdicated King James 2. occasion'd by reading Dr Pelang's leud Harangues upon the 30 of January being the Anniversary or general madding day Amsterd alias Lond. 1691 in 4 sheets in qu. Written as a Preface to a larger work to come to Justifie the Murder of King Charles 1. not by the said Ludlow but by some malevolent person in England Much about which time was published under Joh. Milton's name The right of the people over Tyrants such is the liberty since the late Mutation allowed to the Press Jan. 15. John Birkenhead of Oriel afterwards Febr. 11. Henry Birkhead of Trin. afterwards of All 's Coll. March 9. Joseph Brookbank of Brasn 17. Hen. Vaughan of Jesus lately of Oriel Coll. All which Bachelaurs except Ludlow will be mentioned elsewhere Adm. 233. Bach. of Law Jun. 18. Hen. Janson of Ball. Coll. Jul. 3. John Godolphin of Gloc. Hall Besides these were sixteen more admitted and two created but not one of them can I yet find was afterwards a Writer or
his Native Country he wrot in his own Language The Annals of Ireland drawn down with great care and labour to his time and by him Dedicated to his Patron and Favourer of his Muse Florence Mac Mahoun This Book which doth as yet as I conceive continue in MS was in the Custody of one Flor. Mac Carty in 1626 as the Antiquary of Ireland attesteth who adds that this our Author O Fihely did write the said Annals about the latter end of the last or in the beginning of this Century which we are now upon So that I presume that he was living in Fifteen hundred and five and that he wrot as 't is probable other things but lost In this Mans time I find many noted Persons of Ireland to have studied in this University who as it seems have either been Writers Bishops or Statesmen in that Kingdom but most of their Christian Names being deficient I cannot justly particularize them or say that this was afterwards a Writer or that a Bishop c. STEPHEN HAWES or Hawys originally descended as it seems from the Hawes of Hawes in the Bushes in the County of Suffolk was instructed in all such Literature as this University could at that time afford but whether he took a Degree we have no Register to shew it Afterwards in his Travels through England Scotland and France visiting the receptacles of good Letters did much advance the Foundation of Literature that he had laid in this place so that after his return he being esteemed a compleat Gentleman a Master of several Languages especially of the French and above all for his most excellent vein in Poetry he was received into the Court of King Henry 7. who being a great encourager of Learning and a judicious understander of Men was by him made at length one of the Grooms of his Chamber and highly esteemed by him for his facetions discourse and prodigious memory which last did evidently appear in this that he could repeat by heart most of our English Poets especially Jo. Lydgate a Monk of Bury whom he made equal in some respects with Geff. Chaucer He hath transmitted to Posterity several Books in English some of which are in Verse and somein Prose as The pastime of pleasure or the History of Graund Amour and la bel Pucell containing the knowledge of the seven Sciences and the course of Man's Life in this World Lond. 1555. quart Written in English Verse and finished by the Author 21. Henry 7. Dom. 150 5 6. About which time it was first of all I suppose made publick It is adorned with Wooden Cuts to make the Reader understand the Story the better and Printed in an old English Character But such is the fate of Poetry that this Book which in the time of Henry 7. and 8. was taken into the Hands of all ingenious Men is now thought but Worthy of a Ballad-mongers Stall He hath also written 1 The Exemplar of Vertue 2 Delight of the Soul 3 Consolation of Lovers 4 The Chrystalline Temple c. one or more of which were written in Latin This Author was in great value among ingenious Men in the latter end of Henry 7. but when he died I know not as yet WILLIAM GALEON a Norfolk Man Born did in his Manly Years take upon him the Habit of the Friers of the Order of St. Austin the Hermit at Lynn Regis in his own Country Studied several Years in this University among the Brethren of that Order in their College there proceeded Doctor of Divinity at Oxon and at length was made Provincial of his Order that is the chief Governor of the said Brethren living in the Province of England he being then accounted a most eminent Person for Literature and Piety and the prime example among those of his Society for all kind of Virtue and Learning He hath written and left to Posterity Lectiones in Theologia Disputationes Variae Course of Sermons for the whole Year Preached to the People Besides other things which I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to Nature at Lynn before-mentioned in Fifteen hundred and seven year 1507 22. and 23. of Hen 7. and was buried in the Church there belonging to the Friers of St. Austin Joseph Pamphilus Bishop of Segni saith that he died in 1500 Aged 90 Years but falsly for all Authors except himself say otherwise JOHN SOWLE a Carme of London was for some time a Student in the Sacred Faculty among those of his Order in Oxon took one if not both the Degrees in the said Faculty in this University in the Reign as I conceive of Henry 7. being then a very famous Preacher and not only followed by the Secular Priests but by many of the Religious Orders He was a great admirer and a Preacher up of the Doctrine of S. Paul and endeavoured to his utmost to frame his life according to it and to make others do the like and therefore much honored and valued by Dr. John Colet the learned and religious Dean of S. Paul's Cathedral He hath Written according to Baleus these things following Sermones ex D Paulo Divisiones Thematum A course of Sermons for the year Besides other matters relating to Divinity year 1508 He departed this mortal life in Fifteen hundred and eight which was the last year of King Henry 7. and was buried among the Carmes commonly called the White Friers in their Convent near Fleetstreet in the Suburb of London leaving then the Character behind him of a most Pious and Religious Father EDMUND DUDLEY Son of John Dudley Esquire Second Son of John Lord Dudley of Dudley Castle in Staffordshire became a Student in this University about 1478. went afterwards as it seems to Greys-Inn in Holborn near London where he in a short time became so noted a Proficient in the Municipal Law that King Henry 7. taking notice of him did for his singular prudence and faithfulness make choice of him to be one of his Privy Council in the first year of his Reign Dom. 1486. Dudley being then but twenty four years of age Soon after he discerning the King to be of a frugal disposition did to gain his favour the more project the taking advantage against such as had transgressed the Penal Laws by exacting from them the Forfeitures according to those Statutes In which employment he had for his assistant one Sir Richard Emson another Lawyer Son of a Sieve-maker of Tocester in Northamptonshire Both which being constituted by the said King his Judices fiscales as one is pleased to stile them Dudley being then a person that could put hateful business into good language they became so extremely hated of all people that they were forced many times to go guarded in the Streets In the 19. of Henry 7. he being Speaker of the House of Commons in Parliament should have been made Sergeant at Law on the 13. of November the same year but for
what reason it appears not he did petition that he might be discharged from assuming that Degree which was accordingly done to his desire and in the 22. of the said Kings Reign he obtained the Stewardship of the Rape of Hastings in Sussex He hath written a Book Entit Arbor Reipublicae c. It is penned in a Juridic Stile and is now or at least lately was reserved as a choice Monument in the Cottonian Library Whether ever Printed I cannot tell At length after King Henry 7. who favoured his actions because he brought Grist to his Mill being dead his Successor King Henry 8. did for the Peoples satisfaction issue out his special Precept for the Execution of the said Dudley then a Prisoner in the Tower of London Whereupon he had his Head smitten off on Tower-Hill 28. Aug. 2. Henry 8. being the year of our Lord fifteen hundred and ten year 1510 leaving then behind him several Sons the eldest of which was John afterwards Duke of Northumberland Father to Ambrose Dudley Earl of Warwick and to Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester JOHN HOLTE called by some Holtigena was born in the County of Sussex and from being Usher of the School joyning to the common gate of S. Mary Magdalen College and Bachelaur of Arts was elected Probationer of the said College in 1490. and within the compass of an year following was admitted true and perpetual Fellow thereof Afterwards he took the Degree of Master of Arts and carried on the profession of Pedagogy so zealous that by his admirable way of teaching the Faculty of Grammar many from his School were transplanted to several Colleges and Halls in this University that were afterwards eminent in the Nation Since which time and that of King Henry 7. hath been a singular care of Royal Authority and of worthy learned men to lay a solid Foundation of all kind of Learning by producing a right Grammar-Institution For tho before the said King's time a great part of our English men had little leisure and less care of good Arts yet when the Houses of York and Lancaster were united by the Counsel of Dr. John Moreton Bishon of Ely and the times thereupon became more peaceable our Author Holte made a Grammar Entit Lac Puerorum c. Printed about the year 1497. and Dedicated to the said Moreton then Archbishop of Canterbury Which Grammar Printed also with the Works of John Stanbridge being the first of note or most fit for use that was ever Printed in England was much used and taken into the hands of all sorts of Scholars Afterwards the said Stanbridge and his Scholar Robert Whittington with others did put forth divers Treaties of Grammar but more especially Dr. John Colet the learned Dean of S. Paul's Cathedral who compiled the Eight parts of Speech and William Lilye the first Master of S. Paul's School an English Syntax whereunto Cardinal Thomas Wolsey did afterwards prefix an Epistle and directions for teaching the eight Classes or Forms in Ipswich School The learned Erasmus also intreated by Dr. Colet to revise Lilyes Syntax made a new Latin Syntax in 1513. upon which Henry Pryme a School-Master in a certain Monastery and Leonard Cox of Carleon in Monmouthshire Commented the former in 1539. and the other in 1540. But these things being spoken by the by I shall only say that our Author Holte being esteemed the most eminent Grammarian of his time there is no doubt but that he did Compose other things belonging to Grammar which perhaps are now quite lost and past recovery as the time of his death and place of burial is One Holte who was Master to Sir Thomas More Lord Chancellor of England did publish an Accedence and Grammar about the same time that Lac Puerorum was made extant Which Holte is in the Auction Catalogue of Mr. Richard Smith sometimes Secondary of the Poultry Compter written Nich. Holt. Qu. whether not mistaken for John NICHOLAS MAGWIRE was born in Idron within the Kingdom of Ireland Educated among the Oxonians and took one or more Degrees Afterwards returning to his Country he was made Prebendary of Hillard in the Diocess of Laighlin being then and after accounted famous among his Country-men for his great Learning and constant Preaching among them In 1490. he was by provision from the Pope promoted to the Bishoprick of Laighlin aged about thirty one years Where being settled he began to write several Books but being untimely snatch'd away by death finished only these following Chronicon Hiberniae of which Thaddeus Dowling made use when he Composed his Annales Hiberniae and Vita Milonis de Rupe Episc quondan Laighliensis This our Author Magwire year 1512 died in fifteen hundred and twelve 4. Hen. 8. and was buried as it seems in his own Church of Laighlin In his Bishoprick succeeded one Thomas Halsey Doctor of both the Laws whom I shall remember in his proper place among the Bishops that have received their Education in Oxon. MAURITIUS de PORTU otherwise called O-Fihely who in his time was for his great Learning and Virtue called and written by many The Flower of the World was born in the County of Cork near to a celebrated Port called Baltimore in Ireland where the antient Seat of the O-Fihely's was placed instructed for some time in Grammaticals and Trivials in this Universiâ—â— and not unlikely in other Learning after he had taken upon him the Habit of S. Francis in the Convent of the Brethren of that Order situated in the South Suburb of Oxon wherein the person that he admired beyond all the World John Duns Scotus had spent some years in Religion and Learning and in the Library of which place many of his Books had been Religiously preserved From Oxon he Travelled into Italy and setling in the University of Padöua or Padua then flourishing in Learning made very great proficiency in Philosophy in the Monastery of the Franciscans called S. Antony and at riper years applied himself severely to the study of Metaphysicks School-Divinity and above all to the Doctrin of John Duns whom he had in so great veneration that he was in a manner besotted with his Subtilities After he had taken the Degree of Doctor of Divinity in which Faculty he for some time Read with great applause among the Brethren he became known to and much respected by Pope Julius 2. who for a reward of his Learning and Vertues conferred on him the Archbishoprick of Tuam in Ireland in the year 1506. In 1512. he was present at the two first Sessions of the Council of Lateran and in the year following minding to return to his Native Country he obtained a Faculty from the Pope of granting Indulgences to all such that should retire to Tuam to hear the first Mass that he should Celebrate there but at his arrival at Galloway being overtaken with a deadly Disease died before he could Celebrate it His Works which have been much admired and
then wore was valued at a Thousand pounds besides a Collar of SS about his Neck which weighed Eight hundred pounds in Nobles In the 1. Hen. 8. he was made Lieutenant of the Castle of Guisnes in Picardy and in the 5th of that Kings Reign he was at the Seige of Turwyn In the 10th he was one of the Ambassadors then sent into France for confirming the Articles of Peace between King Hen. 8. and the French and in the 11th was one of the Commissioners appointed to make preparation for that famous interview near Guisnes between King Hen. 8. and the King of France After which he grew into such high esteem at Court that in the 15. Hen. 8. he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Name and Title of Nicholas Lord Vaux of Harwedon It is reported by a certain Author that his fancy laid chiefly in the facility of his meeter and the aptness of his descriptions such as he takes upon him to make namely in sundry of his Songs wherein he sheweth the counterfeit action very lively and pleasantly His Book or Books of Poetry I have not yet seen only many of his Copies of Verses in a Book Intit The Paradise of dainty devises c. Printed at Lond. 1578. in qu. Among them I find some which have these Titles set to them 1 A Copy made In his extream sickness which is the eighth Copy in that Book 2 His desire to exchange life numb 17. 3 Of sufferance cometh ease numb 41. 4 No pleasure without some pain fol. 36. b. 5 A lover disdained complaineth fol. 51. a. 6 Of a contented mind 7 Trie before you trust 8 He renounceth all the effects of love 9 Bethinking himself of his end he writeth thus c. There goes a doleful dutty also under his Name beginning thus I loath that I did love c. which was thought by some to be made upon his Death bed At length after this learned and valiant Lord had enjoyed his Honor but a very little time he gave way to fate in May or June in Fiveteen hundred twenty and three year 1523 whereupon his Body was buried as it seems at Harwedon before-mention'd where he founded a Chantry for one Priest to sing Mass for his Soul in the Parish Church there or else in the Church of the Black Friers at London THOMAS LYNACRE born as 't is said at Canterbury but descended from the Lynacre's of Lynacre Hall in the Parish of Chesterfield in Derbyshire which may be the reason why Holinshed and others that follow him say that he was born in the Town of Derby was chosen Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in 1484 where by his close retirement he improved himself very much in Literature and in few Years after much more by his Travels into Italy where taking I suppose the Degree of Doctor of Physick became intimate with Persons famous for learning there The chief Cities of his residence were at Rome and Florence at the last of which places being countenane'd by Laurence Medices Duke thereof had for his instructors Demetrius and Politian and at Rome he became familiar with the learned Hermolaus Barbarus who directed him very freely in his Studies After his return into his own Country he was incorporated Doctor of Physick in this University read a shagling Lecture in that faculty became Tutor to Prince Arthur and to his Princess Catherine for the Italian Tongue Physician to King Hen. 7. as some say afterwards to King Hen. 8 one of the chief Founders of the Coll. of Physicians in Knightridersstreet in London of which he was the first President and at length in Holy Orders and a Priest In 1519. Apr. 29. he was admitted Chauntor of the Church of York in the place of Joh. Perot who died in Febr. going before but Lynacre resigning that place in Nov. following was succeeded therein by Rich. Wyatt D. D. who was admitted thereunto 13. of the same Month. At the same time our Author Lynacre had other Dignities in the Church but at what place I cannot justly say He was great with and highly admired by Sir Tho. More whom formerly he had taught Greek Erasmus Grocyn Latimer Tonstall and who not He was one of the first English Men that brought polite learning into our Nation and it hath been justly question'd by some of the Goliahs of learning whether he was a better Latinist or Grecian or a better Grammarian or Physician Sure it is that he being a general Scholar of his time and esteemed the Honor of the Nation was much reverenc'd by the Oxonians especially upon reading his Medicinal Lectures among them gratus and generally by all Persons of Honor and others for his happy practice among them He hath written The Rudiments of Grammar Lond. in aedib Pynsonianis Turn'd into Latin by George Buchanan a Scot Par. 1533. and 50. in oct Which Book hath ever since been the Cynosura for many of our best Grammarians Compendious Regiment or a Dietarie of health used at Mountpillour Lond. by Rob. Wyer in 8vo De Emendatâ Structurâ Latini sermonis libri sex Several times Printed as at Paris 1532. 43. 50 c. Col. Agrip. 1555 c. all in 8vo recognised and amended by Joachim Camerarius Lips 1591. oct The said 6 Books were originally made for the use of the Lady Mary the Kings Daughter the same I think who was afterwards Queen and are much commended by Jo. Leland He also translated from Greek into Latin several of the works of Claud. Galen among which were those De temperamentis de inaequali temperie lib. 3. Venet. 1498. Which Latin Translation as 't is said speaks better than the Original He also translated into the said Language Procli Diadochi Sphaera Venet. 1500 fol. Dedicated to Prince Arthur by a large Epist or Praef. dat at Lond. 6. cal Sept. with other things which you may see in Baleus and Pitseus This Dr. Lynacre died 20. Octob. year 1524 in Fiveteen hundred twenty and four and was buried in the Cathedral of St. Paul within the City of London before the Rood of the North Door between the long Form and the Wall directly against the said Rood Over his Grave was afterwards a comely Monument erected at the charge of that eminent Physcian and Antiquary Dr. John Cay of Cambridge out of the Epitaph of which I am instructed in these matters concerning Lynacre viz. That he was a most skilful Critick in the Greek and Latin and an excellent Physician besides being Physician to King Hen. 8. who in his Generation did many miraculous Cures and restored several to life when help was past and even at the very point of death He translated Galen's works out of Greek into Latin with singular perspicuity and clearness He also compil'd a most excellent piece for the rectifying of the frame and module of the Latin Tongue He gave two Lectures to the University of Oxon and one to Cambridge
Musick easily his Genie therefore was born to greater Studies In short time after he sent him to Padöua in Italy which was then most flourishing in literature to obtain or rather advance himself in good letters and allowed him an yearly Pension to defray his Charges While he was conversant with the Muses there he was much instructed in his Studies by Cuthb Tonstall and Will. Latymer whom he calls his Praeceptores and whether he took a Degree there I find not After his return into England he retired to Oxon where as I conceive he had studied for some time before he travelled and settled for a time as 't is supposed in Queens Coll. of which his Patron T. Langton had been Provost and soon after was received into the service of Dr. afterward Cardinal Christopher Bambridge who succeeded his said Patron in that Provostship as I have elsewhere told you From the service of the said Cardinal he was received into the Royal Court where his parts being soon discovered and his accomplishments made known to the King was by him made Secretary of State and employed in matters of high concern In the beginning of 1514 he was admitted Prebendary of Bugthorpe in the Church of York in the place of Thom. Wolsey consecrated Bishop of Linc. and on the 20. of May the same Year he was made Archdeacon of Dorset upon the resignation of Dr. Rob. Langton sometimes of Queens Coll. in this University Afterwards he was sent in one or more Embassies by the King which he performed with very great honor to himself and the English Nation In 1519 he became Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral within the City of London on the Death of Dr. Joh. Colet and about that time Dean of Exeter but whether he was ever Dean of Salisbury it appeareth not 'T is true that Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury doth say in the Life and Reign of King Hen. 8. under the Year 1536. that Pet. Vannes then Archdeacon of Worcester was not long before that time made co-adjutor to Rich. Pace Dean of Salisbury being then thought commonly distracted and out of his Wits But how that can be I cannot find for 1 it doth evidently appear from the Registers of that Church that one Raymund Pade had that Deanery conferr'd upon him 19. Jan. 1522. 2 That in the said Registers no mention at all is made of R. Pace as Dean and thirdly that Pet. Vannes beforementioned became Dean of the said Church by virtue of the King's Letters on 3. Feb. 1539. in the place as 't is supposed of the said Pade at which time R. Pace had been dead 7 Years In 1521 he being made Prebendary of Combe and Harnham in the said Church of Sarum he shewed himself serviceable to the University of Oxon the Members of which would then have had him to adorn their Lycaeum with a degree if certain customs belonging thereunto did not hinder him Afterwards our Author Paice who was then esteemed by all ripe in wit learning and eloquence and very expert in Foreign Languages was sent in the Kings Affairs Ambassador to Venice which function there he so discharged that it is hard to say whether he procured more commendation or admiration among the Venetians both for dexterity of his wit and especially for the singular promptness in the Italian tongue wherein he seemed nothing inferior neither to Pet. Vannes here in England the Kings Secretary for the Italian tongue nor yet to any other which were the best for that tongue in all Venice For opinion and fame of learning he was so generally accepted not only here in England with Lynacre Grocin Sir Tho. More and others but also known and reported abroad in such manner that in the great Volume of Erasmus his Epistles he wrot almost to none so many as he wrot to this our Author Paice It must be now noted that while he continued at Venice he grew much out of favour with Cardinal Wolsey first for shewing his readiness to assist Charles Duke of Burbon with Money while the said Cardinal who had little or no affection for that Duke did under hand keep back a vast summ of Money which K. Hen. 8. had sent to the said Duke to carry on his War near Pavia against Francis 1. K. of France and secondly for his negligence in advancing the said Cardinals designs to succeed in the Papacy P. Adrian the 6. who died 1523. I say for these two reasons especially he was so much inflamed against Paice that he forthwith took such causes that for the space almost of two Years he had neither writing from the King or Council how he should proceed in his Affairs at Venice nor any allowance for his diet notwithstanding he had sent Letters for the same to England very often Upon this and especially upon some private intimation from his Friends at home he took such an inward thought and conceit that his wits began to fail him It is reported that the Venetian Ambassador residing in London repaired to the Cardinal and desired to know of him whether he would command any thing to the English Ambassador at Venice Whereupon he made answer Paceus decepit Regem Which words coming to Paice's knowledge so deeply pierc'd his stomach that he in a manner fell quite besides himself Soon after his frensie and the reason thereof being made known to the King he was forthwith sent for home and by the Kings command he was so carefully attended by his Physicians that in short time he came to his wits again and began to study the Hebrew Language with Rob. Wakfeld About that time the Cardinal being absent Paice's Friends found such means that he was brought to the King then residing at Richmond where they had private discourse for two hours or more not without great rejoycing to His Majesty to see him so well amended in his senses Afterwards the Cardinal hearing what had passed and suspecting that he had disclosed somewhat to the King which he would not have known as also doubting the King would take Paice into favour again began in short time after to quarrel and to pick up matters to lay to Paice's charge whereas he should have rather cleared himself of those things which Paice laid unto him before the King and then to have proceeded accordingly But so it was that when the King had willed the Cardinal to purge himself of those things which Paice had rightly charged him withal he sitting in judgment with the Duke of Norfolk and other States of the Realm not as a Defendant but as a Judge in his own cause did so bear out himself and weighed down Paice that he was forthwith commanded to the Tower of London as Prisoner where he continuing for the space of two Years or thereabouts was at length by the Kings command discharged While he was in his disconsolate condition he was so deeply sensible of his case that he was more distracted in his wits than
the Summer time before August in Fifteen hundred thirty and eight year 1538 30. Hen. 8. whereupon his body was buried in the Church of Norbury before-mention'd Soon after was a blew Marble-stone laid over his Grave with an Inscription thereon which is now remaining His name and posterity are yet as I conceive living at Norbury Tissington and Somersal in Derbyshire and elsewhere JOHN HILSEY or Hildesley was of the same Family with those of Beneham in Berks. and they originally of the Hildesleys of Hildesley in the same County who being much addicted from his Childhood to Learning and Religion nothing was wanting in his sufficient Parents to advance them Whereupon falling under the tuition of a Dominican or Preaching or Black Frier was entred in his manly Years among the Brethren of that Order at Bristow and thence for a time was removed to the House of the Dominicans in the S. Suburb of Oxon purposely to initiate him in the supreme faculty and in some smattering of Philosophical Learning In the Month of May 1527 he supplicated to be admitted to the reading of the sentences but whether he was admitted it does not appear through neglect in the publick Register and in Nov. 1532. he by the name and title of Pater Johannes Hylsey de ordine praedicatorum Bac. SS Theol. supplicated to proceed in Divinity Which being granted he was admitted but did not stand in the Act following to compleat that Degree So that how it comes to pass that a certain Author of note should say that he was Doctor of Divinity of Cambridge I cannot perceive seeing that his name doth not occur in the Catalogue of the Doctors of all faculties who proceeded at Cambridge from 1500 to 1571. Printed at the end of the first Edition of Antiquitates Britannicae Ecclesiae This Doctor Hilsey being elected Bishop of Rochester after the decollation of John Fisher had restitution made to him of the temporalities of that See 4. Oct. 27. Hen. 8. Dom. 1535 where being settled he wrot A Manual of Prayers or Primer with the Epistles and Gospels Which Book being dedicated to Thomas Lord Cromwell was at his command published at Lond. 1539. in 8. He also wrot De veri corporis esu in Sacramento Ded. also to the said Cromwell Of which Book and its Author see in a piece of Lat. Poetry intit Diacosio-Martyrion written by Job White Warden of the College near Winchester afterwards successively B. of Linc. and Winchester As for our Author Dr. Hilsey I know not yet to the contrary but that he hath written other things having always been accounted a Learned Man but what the titles of them are I cannot tell nor do I know any thing else of him only that he dying towards the latter end of the Year Fifteen hundred thirty and eight was year 1538 I presume buried in the Cathedral of Rochester In the said See succeeded Nicholas Heath as I shall tell you elsewhere among the Bishops JOHN MAJOR was born at Haddington within the Province of Lothaine in Scotland and trained up from his Youth in the Study of good Letters For some time he heard Philosophy taught in the Universities of England and in Cambridge by his own confession he studied for three Months space in Christ's College but upon what account he continued there no longer he tell us not In a certain note under the hand-writing of our Antiquary Brian Twyne it doth appear that he was conversant among the Oxonian Muses for a time but in what House unless in the Abbey of Osney whose melodious ring of Bells he doth familiarly commend I cannot tell After he had satisfied himself with the curiosities of both the Universities he retired to that of Paris settled in the College of Montacute passed his course there became Doctor of the Arts and of the holy Writ a most Scholastical Doctor of the Sorbon and in Scholastical Divinity Philosophy and Sophistry equal with any of his time His works are Liber fallaciarum part 2. Par. 1516. fol. The matter of this Book which by certain Authors is called Sophisticalia Parisiensia and by others his Opera Logicalia was read and discussed in publick in the Coll. of Montacute before-mention'd In quartum sententiarum quaestiones utilissimae Par. 1516. and 19. fol. dedicated to Gawin Douglas Bishop of Dunkeld and Rob. Cockbourne B. of Ross Comment in Mathaeum When printed I know not De auctoritate concilii supra Pontificem Maximum Par. 1518. Excerpted from his comments on Matthew and was reprinted in the first part of Job Gersons works at Paris 1606. fol. In primum sententiarum Par. 1519. fol. Dedicated to George Hepbourne Abbat of Arbroth and of the Privy Council to the King of Scots Historia Majoris Britanniae tam Angliae quam Scotiae lib. 6. Par. 1521. qu. Written in a Sorbonick and barbarotis stile yet very truly and with great liberty of spirit not sparing the Usurpation of Rome and taxing in divers places the laziness and superfuity of the Clergy In quatuor Evangelia expositiones luculentae disquisitiones disputationes contra a Hereticos plurimae Par. 1529. fol. He hath also written Placita Theologica and Sermones per an which I have not seen and hath translated Will. Caxton's Chronicle but whether into the Scotch or English Language I know not At length after or about the Year 1530. he retired into his own Country and professed Theology in the Coll. of S. Salvator at S. Andrews whereof he was made Provost and died there being of good Age but when I cannot yet find George Buchanan was his Scholar and bestoweth on him this Charater in studio Theologiae magnum nomen me puero habuit yet in his Epigrams he speaks slightly of him and his works Besides this Job Major I find two of both his names one was Author of In Psalmos Davidis Regis Prophetae paraphrasis heroicis versibus expressa Witeberg 1574. oct and another who was a Licentiat in Grammar of this University an 1452 but whether he hath written any thing in his faculty I know not HENRY PARKER Son of Sir Will. Parker Knight living sometimes at Halingbery morley in the Diocess of London by Alice his Wife Daugh. of Will. Lovell Esq by Alienour his Wife Daugh. and Heir of Rob. Lord Morley was with several other Nobles of his time educated in most kinds of Literature in this University Afterwards retireing to his Estate in Northamptonshire became so much in favour with K. Hen. 8. that he had summons to Parliament in the 21. Year of that King's Reign by the title of Lord Morley and in the 22. of the said Reign Dom. 1530. being one of the Peers at that time sitting in Parliament subscribed that Declaration then sent to P. Clement 7. whereby intimation was given to his Holiness that unless he would comply with K. Henry in the cause of his divorce from Qu. Catherine the farther
Guade a pious Priest and Chaplain to K. Hen. 8. This Preface with the Book it self all in the like Verse was published at Oxon. about 1584. in oct by George Etheridge a Physician sometimes Pupil to the said Joh. Shepery Vita Epicedion Johannis Claymondi Praesidis Coll. Corp. Chr. MS. in C. C. C. Library The beginning of which is Tristia quisquis ades c. written in long and short Verses He also translated from Greek into Latin several Books as Euripides his Hecuba and Seneca's Hercules furens something of Basil c. besides compositions in Poetry and Prose which after the Author's death came into the hands of George Etheridge before-mention'd who promised in the Year 1584. to make them publick but what hindred him unless death I know not As for our Author Sheperey he gave way to fate at Agmundesham commonly called Amersham in Bucks in the Month of July in fifteen hundred forty and two year 1542 and was buried I persume in the Church there Soon after his death being known in Oxon divers ingenious and learned Men made Verses to his memory in Greek and Latin and caused them to be stuck up on St. Mary's Church doors to be read by the Academians as they passed by Some Persons whether for the sake of his memory or for Poetry I know not got copies of them very greedily and gathered all they could get to the end that with the help of Etheridge they might be published At length being put into the hands of Herman Evans a Stationer for that purpose he kept them till he could get more to be added to them but what hindered their birth I know not WILLIAM THYNNE otherwise Botevill was as it seems a Solopian born and educated among the Oxonians for a time Afterwards retiring to the Court became through several petite employments chief Clerk of the Kitchin to K. Hen. 8. and is stiled by Erasmus Thynnus Aulicus This Person who was poetically given from his Youth did make a search after all the works of Jeffery Chaucer the Prince of our English Poets many of which were then in MS. At length having collected all the ancient Copies of that Author he took great pains to correct and amend them Which being so done he put notes and explanations on and printed them altogether in one Volume in Folio not in double columns as they have been since and dedicated them to K. Hen. 8. an 1542 having been partly and imperfectly done several Years before by Will. Caxton Afterwards Joh. Stow the Chronologer did correct increase and publish them with divers ample notes collected out of several records and monuments All which he delivering to his Friend Tho. Speght a Cantabrigian he drew them into good form and method mixed them with his own and published them 1597. See more in Franc. Thynne under the Year 1611 who was as it seems descended from him Whether this Will. Thynne whom I have mentioned before be the same with Will. Thynne Esq one of the Clerks of the Green-Cloth and master of the Houshold of K. Hen. 8. the same Will. Thynne I mean who died 10. Aug. 1546. and was buried in the Church of Allhallowes Barkin in London I am yet to learn I find another Will. Thynne Esq Brother to Sir John Thynne Knight who after he had travell'd through most parts of Europe return'd an accomplish'd Gentleman and in the 1. Edw. 6. Dom. 1547. went into Scotland under the command of Edward Duke of Somerset to which Duke his Brother Sir John was Secretary where as an Eques catafractus that is a Chevalier arm'd cap a pee he performed excellent service in the Battel at Muscelborough against the Scots This Person I take to be the same to whom K. Hen. 8. by his Letters Pat. dat 8. May 38. of his Reign Dom. 1546. gave the office of general Receiver of two Counties in the Marches of Wales commonly call'd The Earl of Marches Lands At length when the infirmities of Age came upon him he gave himself solely up to devotion and was a daily Auditor of divine service in the Abbey Church at Westminster He surrendred up his Soul to him that gave it 14. March 1584 and was buried in the said Church opposite to the door leading into the Cloister Over his Grave was soon after erected a Monument of Alabaster and 100 Years after was another stately Monument erected near to it Westward for one descended from Sir Joh. Thynne beformention'd namely for Tho. Thynne of Langleat in Wilts Esq sometimes a Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. who was barbarously murder'd in the Pall-mall by a German Sweed and Pole on Sunday in the Evening 12. Feb. 1681. For whom was a large inscription made to be engraved on the said Monument but for certain passages therein reflecting on Justice and I know not what was not suffer'd to be put thereon JOHN HOKER was first Demie or Semicommoner afterwards Fellow of St. Mary Magd. College and in 1535. Master of Arts being then accounted excellently well read in Greek and Latin Authors a good Rhetorician and Poet and much commended for his facete fancy Leland is pleased to mention him in one of his works and to stile him not without desert Nitor artium bonarum He hath written Piscator or the Fisher caught a Comedy An Introduction to Rhetorick Poema de vero crucifixo Epigrammata varia and other things which I have not yet seen He was living in Magd. Coll. in Fifteen hundred forty and three being then Bach. of Divinity of three Years standing as it appears in the Bursars accompts of that House I presume he died shortly after and not in 1541 as Bale and Pits do tell you EDWARD LEE Son of Rich. Lee of Lee-magna in Kent Esq Son of Sir Rich. Lee Knight sometimes twice Lord Mayor of the City of London was born in Kent particularly as I suppose at Lee before-mentioned sent to St. Mary Magd. Coll. about 1499 and took as 't is said one Degree in Arts but whether true I cannot justly affirm because the Register of that time and other writings are imperfect In the Year 1523 one Ed. Lee was admitted Bachelaur of Arts but him I take to be too late for this Edw. Lee whom we are further to mention Afterwards he went to Cambridge as one reports being probably driven hence by Pests that frequently then hap'ned in Oxon. Yet the Reader is to know that he is not reckoned among the Archbishops and Bishops which have been educated in that University by Dr. Matthew Parker in his Catalogue of them at the end of his Cat. of Chancellors Proctors c. thereof in his Edition of Antiquitates Britannicae c. Printed an 157 2-3 Howsoever it is I shall not dispute it only say that afterwards he was made Chaplain to K. Hen. 8. and his Almoner being then a violent Antagonist of Erasmus but whether greater in Learning than he or his equal was then
homine Written and finished at Lovaine 1518. Pompeius fugiens Liber in Pseudo-Dialectios Veritas sucata seu in triumphum prae lectio Written at Lovaine 1519. Praelectio in somnium Scipionis apud Ciceronem Written at Lovaine 1520. Declamationes septem Finished at Bruges In Suetonium quaedam Finished at Lovaine 1521. De consultatione Fin. at Oxon. 1523. De institutione feminae Christianae lib. 3. Written to Catherine Qu. of England from Bruges 1523. De ratione studii puerilis Dedicated by his Epist dat at Oxon. non Oct. an 1523 to Catherine Qu. of England his only Patroness Introductio ad sapientiam Written at Bruges 1524. Satellitium animi vel symbola Ded. to Princess Mary Dau. of K. Hen. 8. from Bruges 1524. Epist ad Hen. 8. dat Ox. 12. Mar. 1525. De concordia discordia lib. 4 De subventione pauperum Written at Bruges 1526. De passione Christi meditatio De sudore Jesu Christi sacrum diurnum At Bruges 1529. De corruptis artibus Tom. 3. De disputatione lib. 1. At Burges 1531. De ratione dicendi lib. 3. At Brug 1532. De communione rerum ad Germanos inferiores At Bruges 1535. Exercitationes animi in Deum At Antw. Aug. 1535. Preces meditationes diurnae At Bruges 1535. Exercitatio linguae latinae Written at Breda 1538. De anima vita lib. 3. At Bruges 1538. With many other things which for brevity sake I shall now omit He also translated into Latin Isocrates his Nicocles dedicated to Card. Wolsey by his Epist dat at Oxon 15. Dec. 1523. with other translations which I also shall omit As to the time of this worthy Authors death many Writers differ and the just day or year is yet uncertain Anton. Postevin saith he died at Bruges in Flanders 1536. or therebouts having left off writing in 1535. Ludovic Guicciard in his description of Bruges reports it an 1540. Thuanus who saith he was a Professor at Lovaine tells us that he died there 1541 and Job Whyte in his Diacosio-Martyrion printed 1553 would have it at Bruxels 1545. Which last Author being before all the former in time and perhaps may know or remmeber Vives ought therefore to be believed before the rest But these matters notwithstanding being uncertain I shall venture to put his death under Fifteen hundred forty and four year 1544 which being at Bruges was buried in the Church of St. Donantius there See more of him in a Book intit Bibliotheca Hispanica Printed at Rome in two Tomes in fol. 1672. Tom. 1. p. 552 553 c. Both which Tomes were written by Nicholaus Antonius Hispalensis J. C. Kt. of the Order of St. James ROBERT SHYNGLETON descended from a good Family of his name living in Lancashire was always esteemed an ingenious Man while he resided in the University but whether he was honored with a Degree it appears not Afterwards being a Priest and a Requent Preacher he took occasion to reflect on the times and certain Persons in his Sermons For which being called to an account and committed was forced with two other Persons to make his Palinodie before a Convention of certain Bishops at London an 1543. 35. H. 8. His works are these Treatise Of the seven Churches Of the Holy Ghost Comment on or explanation of certain Prophecies The two first were formerly perhaps still in the King's Library at Westminster The last giving high offence as containing many treasonable matters and most severe reflections the Author was hanged for it at London in Fifteen hundred forty and four year 1544 Anton. Possevinus stiles him a Martyr for the Rom. Cath. Cause and John Pitseus omits him as being an Heretick or at least for the honorable mention made of him by Jo. Bale WILLIAM LATYMER became Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in 1489 whence after he had spent some Years in Logicals and Philosophicals he travelled into Italy and settling at Padöua for a time did much advance his learning especially in the Greek tongue After his return he was incorporated M. of A. as it seems became most eminent and was worthily numbered among the lights of learning in his time by Jo. Leland as I have elsewhere told you About the beginning of Hen. 8. he was Master or Tutor to Reynold Pole afterwards Cardinal and Archb. of Canterbury by whose endeavours he had some preferment in the Church confer'd upon him He was learned in all sacred and profane Letters and as Erasmus saith was verè Thologus integritate vitae conspicuus 'T is said also that he hath written several things but what they are except Epistolae ad Erasmum I know not However he with Lynacre and Grocin did undertake the translation of all Aristotles works into Latin but the latter being taken away by death before they were half finished Latymer desisted and would not go any farther as being perhaps terrified with the immense labour to be taken therein He died very aged at his Rectory of Seyntbury near to Camden in Glocestershire which he kept with that of Wotton under Edge and a Prebendship in the Church of Salisbury about the Month of Sept. year 1545 in Fifteen hundred forty and five and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there dedicated to St. Nicholas Over his Grave was a Marble-stone soon after laid with a large Inscription on a brass plate fastned thereunto which hath been long since taken away and defaced I have seen a Copy of his Will whereby he gave with certain conditions all his Greek and Lat. Books to Allsouls and Corp. Chr. Coll. in Oxon. yet whether they received them it appears not I find one Will. Latymer D. D. to have been Dean of Peterborough in the place of Job Boxhall ejected an 1560 and Archdeacon of Westminster who dying in the Summer time after 29. July 1583 was buried in the Choire of the Cath. Ch. of Peterborough beneath the Pulpit but of what kin he was to the former I know not He was succeeded in the said Deanery by Rich. Fletcher D. D. of Bennet Coll. in Cambridge afterwards B. of London THOMAS SOLME called by some Sulmo Sowlman and Solimont was born in the Isle of Gernsey educated for a time in this University and was afterwards Secretary of the French tongue to King Hen. 8. This Person who was much conversant in English History wrot The acts and ghests of St. Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury Select antiquities relating to Britain And dying in fifteen hundred forty and five year 1545 was buried in the Monastery of the Carmes or Carmelites at London leaving behind him the Character of a learned Man I find one Tho. Solme to be Author of a Treatise entit The Lords Flaile being an exposition on the commandments Printed at Basil in oct but when unless in the time of Qu. Mary the beginning or end of the Book shews not One Tho. Somus a Preacher in the time of Ed. 6. hath English Verses at the end of Will.
sent forth for his welfare and blessed proceedings in the Reformation then in hand This great Person who was also Duke of Somerset died on Tower-hill near London by the stroke of the ax 22. January in Fifteen hundred fifty and two which was the sixth Year of K. Ed. 6. but where he was buried I cannot yet tell NICHOLAS UDALL whom Leland stiles Odovallus was born in Hampshire and descended from those of his name living sometimes at Wykeham in the said County was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. in June 1520. aged 15 or more Probationer Fellow in Sept. 1524. being then Bach. of Arts and two Years after supplicated for the Degree of Master but took it not at that time being as 't is probable denied because he was much addicted to the opinions of Luther Afterwards he obtained the Mastership of Eaton School near Windsor and proceeded in Arts 1534 but in 1540-41 had like to have lost that place as being suspected to be conscious to a robbery committed by two Scholars of his School who having stole images plate and other matters belonging to the College of Eaton were with Udall examined by His Majesties Council in the beginning of March that Year What became of the matter I know not sure 't is that our Author Udall was made Canon of Windsor in the beginning of Edw. 6. and is stiled by a certain Author to be Elegantissimus omnium bonarum literarum magister earum felicissimus interpres He hath written Flowers for Latin speaking selected and gathered out of Terence and the same translated into English together with the exposition c. newly corrected When this was first Printed I cannot tell That Edit which I have seen was Printed at Lond. 1568. in oct Which Book being esteemed good in its time and very useful for young Scholars Joh. Leland and Tho. Newton wrot Verses in commendation of it not only set before the Book but Printed in their respective Encomia's c. Commentary on the Apothegms of Erasmus Epistolae Carmina ad Gul. Hormannum Joh. Lelandum Comedies Epistles and divers Verses He also translated into English at the request of Qu. Cather Parr 1 Paraphrase on the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles Lond. 1551. fol. written by Erasmus 2 Pet. Martyrs Treatise wherein he openly in the Univ. of Oxon. declared his whole and determinate judgment concerning the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper Lond. in qu. and 3ly The Tragedy of Popery and other things as Bale will tell you When this our Author Udall died I know not nor any thing else of him only that his Memory is celebrated by polite Verses written by Joh. Leland Joh. Parkhurst and Tho. Newton of Chestire to which I refer to the Reader I have seen the Copy of a commission granted in the beginning of the Year 1572 to one Catherine Yerbury otherwise Udall Daugh. of Nich. Udall of Fenne in Somersetshire giving her power to administer the goods debts and chattels of him the said Nich. Udall lately deceased Whether this Nic. Udall be the same with him that was the Writer the Reader is to judge RALPH RADCLIFF was born of and descended from an ancient Family of his name in Cheshire received part of his Academical Education in this University particularly as I conceive in Brasenose Coll. about the time of its first foundation but whether he took a Degree it appears not The genie of this Person being strangely addicted to the instruction of Youth he obtained part of the Carme's House at Huchin or Hitchin in Hertfordshire an 1538. being about that time dissolved wherein he not only opened a School but framed out a lower room into a Stage for his Scholars to act Latin and English Comedies to the end that they might be emboldened for speaking and pronuntiation Which practice being used by them several Years his School was in great renown he grew rich and was had in much veneration in the neighbourhood He had many Tragedies Comedies Epistles Orations c. laying by him in the time of K. Ed. 6. which as he would often tell his Friends he would never publish till they had remained by him 9 Years And whether they were ever published I cannot yet learn The titles of some of his labours were these Dives and Lazarus a Comedy Patient Greseld Com. Friendship of Titus and Gisippus Com. Chaucers Melibie Com. Job's afflictions Trag. Delivery of Susanna from the Elders The burning of Sodom Pugna nominis verbi De pueroum institutione Epistolae ad Tyrones Epigrammata c. With other things which may be seen in Baleus who further tells us that he was in great renown at Huchin in Fifteen hundred fifty and three He lived several Years after died and was buried there but when I cannot yet learn One or more of his descendants for he was married and had issue were Knights particularly Sir Edw. Radcliff of Hitchin living in the time of K. James 1. JOHN RHESE or ap Rise or Prise or Priseus so many ways I find him written by Authors was born of a gentile and ancient Family in Wales but in what County is yet uncertain or in what House in Oxon educated unless in the ancient hostle called Broadgates now Pembroke Coll. wherein several of both his names and time have studied Among them was John Prise Bac. of the Civil Law who in the Year 1530. supplicated for the Degree of Bac. of Can. Law and two Years after John ap Rice a secular Chaplain was admitted to the same Degree which probably may be the same with Joh. Price Bach. of the Civil Law Farther also I find that in 1523. one John Prise of Allsouls Coll. was admitted Bach. of the Civil Law and that he died 1554 And in 1534. occurs another Joh. Price of Broadgates Hall I think who was admitted Bach. of the Civil Law without any title added to it which perhaps may be the Author that I am further to mention who being encouraged in his studies by William Earl of Pembroke made great advances therein especially as to the Histories and Antiquities of his own Country In 1546. March 2. he with many others received the honor of Knighthood from the hands of Edward Lord Protector of England About which time our Author observing the great and manifold errors which were made by Pol. Virgil in his Historiae Anglicae Libri 27 wherein many things redounded to the dishonor of the British Nation he thereupon published Fides Historiae Britannicae Defensio Regis Arthuri And wrot about the Year 1553. 1. Mar. a Book intit Historiae Britannicae defensio But the Author dying before he could have it published was at length in the Year 1573. put out in qu. under the name of Joh. Priseus by his Son Rich. Prise D. D. He the said Sir John did also write A description of Cambria now called Wales Augmented and made perfect by Humph. Lloyd and
set before the History of Cambria which was translated into English by the said Lloyd and augmented corrected and published by Dav. Powell an 1584. The said Description of Cambria was Printed again at Oxon. 1663. in two sheets and an half in qu. under the title of A description of Wales but it doth so much differ in words from the former that many Readers are apt to take it for another thing Tractatus de Eucharistia This I have not yet seen only a bare mention of it by Baleus Nor do I know any thing else of the Author only that he died in Qu. Maries days But where or the particular Day Month or Year when I know not WILLIAM THOMAS a Welsh Man born or at least of Welsh extract was educated in all kind of learning fit for a Gentleman but what Degree he took I know not One of both his names was admitted Bach. of the Canon Law in the beginning of Dec. 1529. but whether the same I dare not yet affirm In 1544 he was constrained by some misfortune to abandon the place of his nativity and in Feb. 1546. when the news of the death of King Hen. 8. came into Italy he was at Bologna la Grassa where being in the company of several Gentlemen he entred into discourse in defence of the said King whose honor there had been wrongfully touched Which discourse he afterwards drew up by way of Dialogue directing it to Pietro Aretino the well known Thuscan Poet as famous for his Satyrical wit as infamous for his life and death Afterwards if not before he lived at Padöua where he gathered many materials for his Italian Dictionary and Grammar and in 1549 I meet with him returned to London where he wrot his short but methodical History of Italy About that time his name being highly fam'd for his travels through France and Italy his knowledge in several of the modern tongues and in other sorts of learning he was made Clerk of the Council to K. Ed. 6. but upon his death falling into the displeasure of Qu. Mary and so consequently depriv'd of his place and all hopes of other employment in the Court he thereupon designed her murther one saith that the design was against Steph. Gardiner Bishop of Winchester for which he was sent Prisoner to the Tower of London on the 20. Feb. 1553. in the company of Will. Winter and Sir Nich. Throckmorton committed to that place also On the 26. of the same Month being much conscious to himself that he should suffer a shameful death he endeavour'd to make away with himself by thrusting a knife into his body under his paps but the wound did not prove mortal On the 9. of May 1554. he was arraigned and condemned at the Guild hall in Lond. and on the 18. of the same Month he was drawn from the Tower to Tyburn where after he had made a Speech in defence of himself he told the company that he died for his Country He was a Man of a hot fiery spirit had suck'd in damnable principles by his frequent conversation with Christoph Goodman that violent enemy to the rule of Women and one of more misguided zeal than true Religion and Wisdom This Will. Thomas hath written The History of Italy a Book exceeding profitable to be read because it intreateth of the estate of many and divers Common-wealths how they have been and now be governed Lond. 1561. qu. Dedic to John Earl of Warwick by an Epistle dated 20. Sept. 1549. Principle rules of the Italian Grammar with a Dictionary for the better understanding of Boccace Petrarcha and Dante Lond. 1550. 1567. qu. Le peregrynne written at Bologn la Grassa 'T is a MS. in Bod. Lib. qu. D. 23. Th. fol. 71. The beginning of it is Constrained by misfortune to habandon the place of my nativity c. In the title page are these Verses He that dyeth with honor lyveth for ever And the defamed dead recovereth never This Book called Le perigrynne is about to be translated into Lat. with a design to be remitted in the third Tome of Fasciculus collected by Edw. Brown of Christ's College in Cambridge Common place of state Written for the use of King Ed. 6. wherein 't is discoursed whether it be expedient to vary with the time with some others writings which I once saw in the Cottonian Library under Vespasians head D. 18 The title of this Book with other matters relating to Will. Thomas I did formerly communicate to H. Foulis when he was gathering materials for an History of the Romish treasons not dreaming then that I should afterwards make use of them as I have done now I am verily perswaded that there are in being other Books of this W. Thomas either publick or in MS. in private hands which time may hereafter produce So that now I shall only say that he suffer'd death at Tybourne before-mentioned by hanging drawing and quartering 18. May in Fifteen hundred fifty and four year 1554 leaving then behind him the character by some of a Person of good parts What became of his quarters I know not THOMAS SWINERTON was descended from an ancient Family of his name living in Staffordshire but whether born in that County I cannot tell and educated partly in Cambridge but mostly in Oxon in all good arts and in the tongues Afterwards taking holy Orders he began to see the light of the Gospel while Sir Tho. More was Lord Chancellour of England in whose time many Hereticks as they were then called were imprison'd and brought into trouble Whereupon being resolved to gain what Proselytes he could to his Religion he changed his name to Joh. Roberts and under that name he not only taught God's word in several places chiefly at Ipswych in Suffolk and Sandwych in Kent but also published and translated several things as A muster of Schismatick Bishops otherwise naming themselves Popes Printed in oct The Plots of Papists entituled by a certain Author De Papiculorum susurris And translated into English The History of the life of Hildebrand called Gregory the 7. written in Latin by Beno a Cardinal and also The life of Hen 4. Emperour of Rome and Almaine Which Henry was imprison'd and deposed by the said Pope Both these translations were Printed in oct and much valued in the time when they were made extant When Qu. Mary came to the Crown and Religion thereupon altered our Author Thom. Swinerton fled beyond the Seas but being overtaken with a certain distemper at Emden in East Frisland in Fifteen hundred fifty and four year 1554 died and was there buried the same Year to the great reluctancy of all those exiles that were there and in those parts JOHN HOPER or Hooper noted to posterity for his manful and painful suffering of death for the Protestant Cause received his first breath in Somersetshire and his Academical Education in Oxon but in what House there unless in that of Merton I cannot yet tell He
find another Tho. Talbot to have been born in the said County of Lancaster and entred into the Society of Jesus an 1598. aged 26. who after he had wrot several Books died in 1652 but this Person was not as I can yet learn originally bred among us HENRY Lord STAFFORD the only Son of Edward Duke of Bucks attained and executed for treason in 1521. was one of the most accomplished Persons of his time and tho not the inheritor of his Fathers honours yet he was a Man of great virtue learning and piety In his younger years he received his education in both the Universities especially in that of Cambridge to which his Father had been a benefactor where by the care of good Tutors he attained to a considerable knowledge in the Latin tongue and in that language he wrot several things as 't is said as well in verse as prose but such I have not yet seen He translated into English a Book intit De vera differentia regiae potestatis ecclesiasticae quae sit ipsa veritas ac virtus utriusque c. Written by Edward Fox Bishop of Hereford This translation was printed in oct but when it appears not in the Book He also translated Erasmus his Two Epistles wherein is declared the brainsick headiness of the Lutherans c. Lond. 1553. oct and other things which I have not yet seen This noble Lord gave way to fate in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight but where buried I cannot yet tell nor in what County born unless in Staffordshire wherein he was possessor of many Lands ROBERT BROKE or Brook Son of Thom. Broke of Claverley in Shropshire year 5121 by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Hugh Grosvenor of Farmot in the said County was born as I conceive at Claverley laid a foundation of Literature at Oxon which was a great advantage to him when he studied the municipal Laws in the Middle Temple where he became the compleatest Lawyer of his time In 1542 he was elected Autumn or Summer Reader of that House and in the latter end of the Year in Lent 1550 he was elected Double-Reader In 1552 he was by writ called to be Serjeant at Law and in 1553 being the first Year of Qu. Mary he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common pleas and not of the Common-bench as some say and about that time received the honor of Knighthood from that Queen In whose Reign and after he was held in high value for his profound knowledge in the Law and for his just and upright dealing in all matters relating to the profession thereof He hath written An abridgment containing an abstract of the Year Bookes till the time of Qu. Marie Lond. 1573. fol. 76 86 c. qu. Certain cases adjudged in the time of K. Hen. 8. Ed. 6. and Qu. Marie from 6. Hen. 8. to the 4. of Qu. Marie Lond. 1578. 1604. 25. c. in oct The original title of this Book is in French Ascuns novel cases c. Reading on the Statute of limitations 32. H. 8. c. 2. Lond. 1647. oct Printed I think before that time This Sir Rob. Broke who was a zealous Cathol died as it seems in Aug. or Sept. year 1558 in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight but where buried I cannot yet tell In his Will proved 12. Oct. the same Year he several times remembers the Church and Poor of Putney near London I find another of both his names who is written Esquire Serjeant at Law and Recorder of London under whose name was published Reading upon the statute of Magna Charta chap. 16. Lond. 1641. qu. before which time the Author was dead Whether the same with Rob. Brook of Brasenose who was admitted Master of Arts 1584. I think not As for Sir Rob. Broke the Judge he obtained a fair estate by his endeavours which he left to his posterity remaining at Madeley in Shropshire and at one or two places in Suffolk PAUL BUSH was born of honest and sufficient Parents became a Student in this University about the Year 1513 and five years after took the Degree of Bach. of Arts being then numbred among the celebrated Poets of the University Afterwards he applied his mind to the supreme faculty entred into the Order of the Bonhom's studied among the Fryers of the Order of St. Austin now Wadham Coll. in the North suburb of Oxon and at length became Provincial of his Order that is of Bonhoms This Person being noted in his time for his great learning in Divinity and Physicks was by K. Hen. 8. made the first Bishop of Bristow after he had placed an Episcopal See there an 1542 and by the name and title of Paulus Bush capellanâ—s Regis S. Theologiae Bacalaureus had restitution made to him of the Temporalities belonging to that See 16. June in the same Year But he taking to him a Wife whom one calls a Concubine in the days of K. Ed. 6. was depriv'd of his Bishoprick by Qu. Mary an 1553 whereupon he spent the remaining part of his days at Bristow He hath written several things in Divinity and Medicine as well in verse as prose of which number these are some An exhortation to Margaret Burges Wife to Jo. Burges Clothier of Kingswood in the County of Wilts Lond. temp Ed. 6. in oct Notes on the Psalm beginning with Miserere mei Deus c. Treatise in praise of the Cross Dialogues between Christ and the Virgin Mary Treatise of salves and curing remedies besides Poems of divers kinds which I have not yet seen At length taking his last farewell of this World on the eleventh of Octob. year 1558 in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight aged 68 years was buried on the North side of the choire near to the entrance leading into the North Isle of the Cath. Church at Bristow Over his grave was soon after erected a low altar tomb and on it was fastned his statue in his Episcopal Robes lying on his back On the 4 corners of the Tomb were erected four small Pillars bearing a Canopy about which is this written Hic jacet D. Paulus Bush primus hujus Ecclesiae Episcopus qui obut undec die Octob. an Dom. 1558. aetatisque suae 68 cujus animae propitietur Christus About the tomb beneath the statue are certain verses engraven on three sides thereof the fourth joyning to the Wall some of which follow Agnus qui primam nostrum sua tempora miram Indueret jacet hic Bristoliense decus A patre Bush dictus Paulum baptisma vocavit Virtus implevit nomen uterque Pari. Paulus c. Ille animos verbis impensos pavit egenos Hinc fructum arbusto portulit ille suo Ut madidos arbusta tegunt sic foedere rupto Inter discordes pacificator erat This Monument was erected near to the stone under which his sometimes Wife called Edyth Ashley was buried who died 8. Oct. 1553. ROBERT WARDE a native of the Dioc. of Durham was elected
variety of other mens labours in Grammar of whom Joh. Stanbridge Rob. Whittington Joh. Colet and Lilye were of the number sprang a great diversity in the course of teaching which King Hen. 8. intending to reform caused sundry learned Men of whom Dr. Rich. Cox Tutor to K. Ed. 6. is supposed to be one to reduce the former attempts in this kind into one body of Grammar which they jointly did in 1545 being that now in use and first authorized by K. Hen. 8. Howbeit soon after it was thought too prolix for in the Reign of Ed. 6. John Fox of Magd. Coll. did set forth Tables of Grammar subscribed in Print by eight Lords of the Privy Council which Tables were quickly laid aside as being far more too short than K. Hen. 8. his Grammar was too long Since which time many learned Men in England and far more abroad have spent much profitable study in this Art and the method thereof as we well know In the 3. of Ed. 6. Dom. 1549. he the said Thom. Robertson was one of the number appointed by the K. and his Council to compile and frame the Liturgy of the Church which we now call the Common-Prayers and in the Year 1557. Jul. 23. he had the Deanery of Durham confer'd on him by the Queen being then void upon the promotion of Dr. Tho. Watson to the See of Lincoln who had been instituted in the said Deanery by Tonstall Bishop of Durham 18. Nov. 1553. upon the deprivation of Dr. Rob. Horne at which time being greatly in respect for his piety and learning the Queen would have had him taken a Bishoprick but he modestly refused it His works are Annotationes in librum Guliel Lilii de Latinorum nominum generibus de verborum praeteritis supinis c. De nominibus heteroclitis opusculum cum annotationibus De verbis defectivis append interjectis etiam sparsim ubi opus videbatur annotatiunculis Compendium sive de arte versificandi cum annotationibus additis All which Books were printed together at Basil 1532. qu. What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was forced first to leave the Deanery of Durham to make room for Dr. Horne about the latter end of 1559 who being soon after made Bishop of Winchester Robertson might if he would have taken the Oath of Supremacy have came in again but he refused it whereupon Ralph Skynner of Oxon succeeded and secondly to resign his Archdeaconry of Leycester to prevent ejection so that the said Dignity lying void for some time Rich Barber LL. D. was installed therein 24. Dec. 1560. What afterwards became of Tho. Robertson or where or when he died let others seek for I am totally ignorant John Parkhurst B. of Norwich sometimes his Scholar hath an Epigram on him in praise of his learning which may serve instead of his Epitaph if you think fit WILLIAM CHEADSEY a Somersetshire Man born was admitted Scholar of Corp. Chr. Coll. 16. March 1528. aged 18. or thereabouts Probationer-Fellow 13. Oct. 1531 and two years after compleat Fellow In 1534 he proceeded in Arts and in 1542 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences being about that time Chaplain to Dr. Bonner B. of London who having a special respect for his learning and zeal for the R. Catholick Religion he made him not only Archdeacon of Middlesex but Prebendary of St. Pauls Cathedral In 1546 he proceeded in Divinity having about that time subscribed to the 34 Articles and three years after did learnedly dispute with Pet. Martyr in the Divinity School From which time an 1549 he seemed so moderate in his Religion in the remaining part of the Reign of K. Ed. 6. that the Protestants took him to be one of their number In the beginning of Qu. Mary he was made Canon of Windsore shewed himself a zealous Man against the Professors of Protestancy and in 1557 had a Canonry of Ch. Ch. in Oxon confer'd on him after the death of James Curthopp In 1558 he was elected President of Corp. Ch. Coll. and on the 15. Sept. in the same Year he was admitted thereunto but removed from it the next Year by the Commissioners sent by Qu. Elizabeth to visit the University About that time he was appointed one of the number of the R. Catholick Divines to repair to London to dispute with those of the Protestant Party when the said Queen was setting on foot a Reformation in the Church of England He was by the Protestants accounted a very mutable and unconstant Man in his Religion but by the Rom. Catholicks not but rather a great stickler for their Religion and the chief prop in his time in the University for the cause as it appeared not only in his opposition of P. Martyr but of the three Bishops that were burnt in Oxon. He was a learned Man a deep Divine an excellent Disputant and a characterised by John Leland to be resonae Scholae columna His works are Serm. on Matth. 22. 15. Printed 1545. in oct Disputatio de Eucharistiae Sacramento in Univ. Oxon habita contra D. Pet. Martyrem 29. Maii Jun. 1. an 1549. Lond. 1549. qu. Which disputation hath also been printed once at least among Pet. Martyrs works but whether true according to the Authors Copy I leave it to others to judge 'T is also translated into English Dispution with John Philpot concerning the real presence in the Sacrament in Octob. 1553. Disp with Archb. Cranmer at Oxon an 1554. Communication with B. Rydley an 1555. See more in the Acts and Monuments of the Church c. written by Jo. Fox wherein you 'll find several of his discourses with and examination of Protestant Martyrs At length he was deprived of most if not all of his spiritualities and committed a Prisoner to the Fleet in London where as 't is supposed by some he died soon after However in my searches into obscure Writings I find that one John Joanes a Priest living at or near Thame in Oxfordshire did by his last Will dated 27. of Aug. and proved the 16. of Oct. following an 1574 bequeath to Mr. Dr. Chedsey twenty shillings By which it appears that he was then living but where I find not nor when he died BARTHOLMEW TRAHERON commonly called Trahern was born in Cornwall or at least originally descended from an ancient Family of his name living in that County educated in Logicals and Philosophicals for the most part with us either in Exeter Coll. or Hart hall where he attained to some eminence in the Lat. and Greek Tongues But being desirous to improve himself in greater matters and to see the fashions of the World he travelled into Germany and thence into Italy where he was an auditor and an admirer of many famous Men By whose excellent Lectures and his indefatigable industry he became a compleat Person and much respected by Scholars Afterwards he returned into his own Country entred
PULLAYNE a Yorkshire Man born was educated in New Coll. of which he was either Clerk or Chaplain or both successively and in the Year 1547. being then 3 years standing Master of Arts and thirty years of Age was admitted one of the Senior Students of Ch. Ch. and much in esteem for his Lat. and English Poetry About that time he became a frequent Preacher and a zealous Reformer but when Qu. Mary came to the Crown he absconded and preached privately to the brethren in the Parish of St. Michael on Cornhill in London where I find him in 1556. Afterwards he was forced beyond the Seas to Geneva but returned when Qu. Elizab. was in the regal Throne and had the Archdeaconry of Colchester bestowed on him lately enjoyed by Dr. Hugh Weston besides other spiritualities He hath written Tract against the Arrians And translated into English verse 1 The Ecclesiastes of Salomon 2 Hist of Susanna 3 Hist of Judith 4 Hist of Hester 5 Testament of the 12. Patriarchs He went the way of all flesh year 1565 in Fifteen hundred sixty and five which is all I know of him only that after his death fell out a controversie among his Relations for his estate under pretence that his Children were illegitimate because he had taken to him a Wife in K. Edwards Reign The Reader is to understand that there was one John Pollayne an Oxfordshire Man born elected and admitted Prob. Fellow of Merton Coll. in 1507. but what he hath written I know not he being altogether different from the former notwithstanding Baleus is pleased to tell us that the said former Pullayne the Writer was of Merton Coll. which is false THOMAS CHALONER Son of Reg. Chaloner by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Rich. Middleton Son of Tho. Chaloner second Son of Rice Chaloner of Denbigh in Wales was born in London educated in both the Universities especially in that of Cambridge where for a time he devoted himself to the Muses as he did afterwards to Mars After he had left the University he travell'd beyond the Seas in the company of Sir Hen. Knevet Embassador from K. Hen. 8. to the Emperor Charles 5. Which Emperor T. Chaloner did afterwards serve in the expedition of Algier where being Shipwrack'd did after he had sworn till his strength and his armes failed him catch hold of a Cable with his teeth and so escaped but not without the loss of some of them In the beginning of K. Ed. 6. he received the honor of Knighthood in the camp besides Rokesborough immediatly after the battel of Musselborough wherein he had shewed great valour from Edward Duke of Somerset Lord Protector of England 27. Sept. 1547. and soon after was by him made one of the Clerks of the Privy Council In the time of Qu. Mary he mostly lived in a retir'd and studious condition but in the very beginning of Qu. Elizabeth an 1558. he went on an honorable Embassie to the Emperour Ferdinand such esteem then had the Queen for his port carriage and admirable parts and about an year after was sent ordinary Embassador to Philip K. of Spayne where he continued 4 years in which time at leisure hours he wrot his Book of a Commonwealth which I shall anon mention in elegant and learned verse whilst as he saith in his Preface to it be lived in Winter in a stove and in Summer in a barne Soon after his return from Spayne he ended his days as I shall tell you by and by having before written several things as A little Dictionary for Children De Rep. Anglorum instauranda lib. 10. Lond. 1579. qu. Which Book was by him began 25. Dec. 1562. and ended 21. Jul. 1564. De illustrium quorundam encorniis cum epigram epitaphiis nonnullis Printed with De Rep. Angl. Voyage to Algier with the Emperour an 1541. See in the first vol. of R. Hakluyts voyages He also translated from Lat. into English 1 The office of Servants Lond. 1543. oct written by Gilb. Cognatus which translation is dedicated to Sir H. Knevet before-mention'd 2 The praise of folly Lond. 1549. qu. written by Erasmus What other things he hath written and translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died in his house in St. Johns near London on the nones of Octob. year 1565 in Fifteen hundred sixty and Five and was buried with a sumptuous Funeral according to his worth in the Cath. Ch. of St. Paul within the said City of London His Son Thomas I shall mention among these Writers under the Year 1615. and his Grandson Edward under 1625. JOHN HEYWOOD or Heewood a most noted Poet and jester of his time was born in the City of London and notwithstanding he is said to be Civis Londinensis yet he laid a foundation of learning in this University particularly as it seems in that ancient Hostle called Broadgates in St. Aldates Parish But the crabbedness of Logick not suiting with his airie genie he retired to his native place and became noted to all witty Men especially to Sir Tho. More with whom he was very familiar wrot several matters of Poetry and was the first as some say but I think false that wrot English plays taking opportunity thence to make notable work with the Clergy He had admirable skill also in instrumental and vocal Musick but whether he made any compositions in either I find not He was in much esteem with K. H. 8. for the mirth and quickness of his conceits and tho he had little learning in him yet he was by that King well rewarded After Qu. Mary came to the Crown he was much valued by her often had the honor to wait on and exercise his fancy before her which he did even to the time that she lay langushing on her death-bed After her decease he left the Nation for Religion sake and setled at Mechlin in Brabant which is a wonder to some who will allow no Religion in Poets that this Person should above all of his Profession be a voluntary exile for it He hath written The Play called the four PP being a new and merry enterlude of a Palmer Pardoner Poticary and Pedler Printed at London in an old Engl. character in qu. and hath in the title page the pictures of three Men there should be 4 in old fashioned habits wrought off from a wooden cut Interludes printed at London The Play Of love The Play Of weather The Play Between John the Husband and Tib the Wife Interludes Printed at Lond. Play between the Pardoner and the Fryer the Curat and neighbor Pratt Play of gentleness and nobility in two parts The Pinner of Wakefeld a Comedie Philotas Scotch a Com. I have seen also an interlude of youth Printed at Lond. in an old English Char. temp Hen. 8. but whether Jo. Heywood was the Author of it I know not He also wrot A Dialogue containing the number in effect of all the proverbs in the English tongue compact
troubles at Frankford in Germany printed 1575. in qu. p. 44. 45. c. 92. c. When Qu. Elizabeth succeeded he returned and the first thing that made him then to be noted was An Oration to Qu. Eliz. at her first entrance to her Reigne an 1558. It was not spoken but delivered in writing to her by a certain noble Man The beginning of it is Albeit there be innumerable gifts c. He also wrot a little book in favour of the house of Suffolk especially of the Children of Edw. Seymour Earl of Hertford eldest Son of Edward Duke of Somerset who was married to the Lady Cath. Grey Dau. of Hen. Duke of Suff. of near alliance in blood to the Queen in his house in Chanon row within the City of Westminster in Oct. 1560. The effect of which was to derive the title of the Crown of England in case Qu. Eliz. should die without issue to the house of Suffolk This Marriage notwithstanding the Archb. of Cant. did by his sentence pronounce unlawful yet our Author Hales who was esteemed a Man very opiniotive tho otherwise very learned did maintain in the said book that their sole consent did legitimate their conjunction Which pamphlet flying abroad came straight way to the Court Whereupon the Queen and the Nobles being highly offended the Author was quickly discovered and forthwith imprison'd in the Tower of London Soon after Sir Nich. Bacon then Lord Keeper was presumed to have had a finger in it for which he was like to have lost his office if Sir Ant. Browne who had been L. Ch. Justice of the Common-pleas in Qu. Maries time would have accepted of it which her Majesty offer'd to him and the Earl of Leycester earnestly exhorted him to take it but he refused it for that he was of a different Religion from the State and so Sir Nic. Bacon remained in his place at the great instance of Sir Will. Cecill afterwards L. Treasurer who tho he was to be privy to the said book yet was the matter so wisely laid upon Hales and Bacon that Sir Will. was kept free thereby to have the more authority and grace to procure the others pardon as he did Soon after Jo. Lesley Bishop of Ross a great creature of Mary Queen of Scots did answer that Book for which he got the good will of many tho of others not As for our Author Hales he gave way to fate on the fifth of the calends of January in Fifteen hundred seventy and two year 1571 whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church of St. Peter's poor in London He died without issue so that his estate which chiefly laid in Warwickshire of which his principal house in Coventry call'd Hales place otherwise the White Fryers was part went to John Son of his Brother Christopher Hales sometimes also an Exile at Frankfort whose posterity doth remain there to this day ELIZE HEYWOOD sometimes written Ellis Heewood Son of Job Heywood the famous Epigrammatist was born in London and by the indulgence of his Father was carefully educated in juvenile learning in that City and in Academical in Oxon. In 1547 he was elected Probationer-Fellow of Allsouls Coll. where spending some time in Logicals and Philosophicals he applyed his genie to the study of the Laws in which faculty he took one degree an 1552 being the sixth year of K. Ed. 6. Afterwards he travelled into France and Italy continued for some time at Florence being patroniz'd by Card Pole and became such an exact Master of the Italian tongue that he wrot a book in that Language entituled Il Moro lib. 2. Fiorenz 1556 in octavo This book which is dedicated to the said Cardinal contains a discourse fancied to be in the house of Sir Tho. More sometimes L. Chanc. of England and in consolation with him Besides this book he wrot as 't is said other things in Italian or in Lat. or in his mother tongue which being printed beyond the Sea we seldom or never see them in these parts About that time our Author receiving instructions concerning matters of faith from an English Man called Hall he went into the Low Countries and at Antwerp performed the office of Preacher and Prefectship of the spirit Thence he went to Lovaine where he died in the twelfth year after his ingress into the society of Jesus year 1572 which was about Fifteen hundred seventy and two He had a younger brother named Jasper bred also in Oxford and leaving the Nation for Religion sake entred himself into the said Society as I shall tell you under the Year 1597. num 295. NICHOLAS GRIMALD or Grimoald received his first being in this world in Huntingdonshire and his first Academical education in Christs Coll. in Cambridge where taking the Degree of Bach. of Arts went to Oxon and was incorporated there in the said Degree in Apr. 1542. In the next month he was chosen Probationer Fellow of Merton Coll. he being then in the 23 year of his age In 1544 he proceeded in Arts and 1547 when the Coll. of King Hen. 8. was to be settled and replenished with Students he was put in there as a Senior or Theologist accounted then only honorary and the rather for this reason because he about that time did read a publick Lecture to the Academians in the large refectory of that place All that I have yet seen of his writings are these Archipropheta Tragedia jam recens in lucem edita Colon. 1548. in oct Oratio ad Pontifices Londini in aede Paulina an 1553. 17. Id. Apr. in Synodo publica Lond. 1583. oct In P. V. Maronis quatuor libros Georgicorum in oratione soluta paraphrasis elegantissima Oxonii in Aede Christi 2. Ed. 6. confecta Lond. 1591. oct Fama com Troilus Chauceri com with several such like things which you may see in Baleus who also tells us elsewhere that he wrot in English a Book intit Vox populi or The Peoples complaint c. which was against Rectors Vicars Archdeacons Deans c. for living remote from their Flocks and for not performing the duty belonging to their respective offices He hath also divers Lat. and English copies of verses occasionally printed before and in commendation of other Mens works and has also translated from Lat. into English Cicero's three books of duties to Marcus his Son Lond. 1558. oct with other things from Greek He was in great esteem among Men in the fifteenth year of Qu. Elizabeth LEWIS EVANS was a Monmouthshire Man born as it seems and mostly educated in Oxon Afterwards being a forward and zealous Man for the R. Cath. Religion at London where he had got some employment was brought into trouble by Dr. Grindal Bishop of that place So that being forced to fly he went beyond the Sea and settled for a time at Antwerp where to shew his zeal for the cause he translated a Book from Lat. into English entit Certaine tables set forth by
one George Feres Burgess for Plymouth to sit in a Parliament then held whether the same I know not WILLIAM WHITTYNGHAM Son of Will. Whittyngham Gent. by his Wife the Daughter of Haughton of Haughton Tower Son of Will. Whittyngham of Over Son of Seth Whittyngham of Swanlow in Cheshire was born in the City of Chester became a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. in the sixteenth year of his age 1540 or thereabouts where being put under a careful Tutor did make great proficiency in learning In 1545 he was elected Fellow of Allsouls College being then Bach. of Arts in which faculty proceeding two years after was made one of the Senior Students of Ch. Church at what time it was founded by K. Hen. 8. and endeavoured by him to be replenish'd with the choicest Scholars in the University On the 17. May 1550 he had leave granted to him to travel for 3 years by the Dean and Canons of the said house whereupon he went into France and remaining in the company of learned Men there for some time had intentions to go into Italy but being prevented by sickness which took him at Lyons he spent some time among the Students in Paris but chiefly in the University of Orleance About that time if I mistake not he took to Wife Catherine the Daughter of Lewis Jacqueine by his Wife the heir of Gouteron Lord of Ingrue and Turvyle near to the said City of Orleance After he had spent more than an year there he went to certain Universities in Germany and thence to Geneva where tarrying till towards the latter end of K. Ed. 6. he returned into England But that King dying and Religion seeming to put on another face he went with other company into France where hearing soon after that certain Protestant Divines of England were for Religion sake fled to Frankfort and were about with license from the Magistrate to settle a Church there did hasten thither and entred himself into their association But they dissenting among themselves concerning matters pertaining to Religion were forced to disjoyn and those that did best like of the forms of government of the Church of England in the days of K. Ed. 6. were to remain at Frankfort and those that liked better the order and discipline of the Church at Geneva were to go to that place among whom Whittyngham was one and the chiefest as you may farther see in a book entit A brief discourse of the troubles begun at Frankford 1554 Printed 1575 wherein the opposite and restless humour of this Person may easily be discern'd Soon after their settlement at Geneva John Knox a Scot Minister of the English congregation there was to leave that place and return to his Country so that Whittyngham being look'd upon as the fittest Person to succeed was earnestly desired by Joh. Calvin to take that employment upon him but he alledging that in his former travels and observations with the learning of several languages he had fitted himself more for state employment than that he modestly denied it At length Calvin urging him farther he was thereupon made a Minister according to the Geneva fashion and then took the employment upon him Soon after Miles Coverdale Christop Goodman Anth. Gilby Tho. Sampson Wil. Cole of C. C. Coll. and this our Author Whittyngham undertook the translation of the English Bible but before the greater part was finished Qu. Maary died So that the Protestant Religion appearing again in England the exil'd Divines left Frankfort and Geneva and returned into England Howbeit Whittyngham with one or two more being resolv'd to go through with the work did tarry at Geneva an year and an half after Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown At the same time also he turned into meter those Psalmes that we to this day sing in our Churches inscribed with W. W. They are in number five of which the 119 Psalme is one as large as 22 other Psalmes as also the ten commandments and a prayer at the end of the book of Psalmes At length Whittyngham returning into England he was appointed to go in company with Francis Earl of Bedford to condole the death of the French King an 1560 and soon after to go with Ambrose Earl of Warwick to Newhaven to be preacher there while the said Earl defended it against the French Where tho he shew'd himself ready in his function yet he spared not to perswade the English from Uniformity and observance of the rites and ceremonies of the Church Notwithstanding this so great a respect had the said Earl for him that upon writing to his Brother Robert Earl of Leycester he procured for him from the Queen the Deanery of Durham in 1563 in the place of Ralf Skinner Which Deanery the Queen having partly promised Dr. Tho. Wilson one of the Secretaries of State was forced by the over-intreaties of the said Earl to give it to Whittyngham who enjoying it about 16 years was then succeeded by the said Wilson who enjoyed it not two years After Whittyngham had remained there for some time Sir Will. Cecill Secretary of State was made Lord Treasurer in whose place Whittyngham was among others nominated and had he stirred in it and made interest with his friend Robert Earl of Leycester he might have obtained it About the same time the order of the sacerdotal vestures being generally established for Church-men and so pressed that they that would not use the same should not be permitted to exercise their Ministry he then and not before submitted himself thereunto And being upbraided therewith for so doing by one that had been with him at Geneva he answered that he and others knew and had heard John Calvin say that for external matters of Order they might not neglect their Ministry for so should they for tithing of Mint neglect the greater things of the Law And as concerning singing in the Church Whittyngham did so far allow of it that he was very careful to provide the best songs and anthems that could be got out of the Queens Chappel to furnish his choire withal himself being skilful in Musick To pass by the good service he did his Country against the Popish rebels in the North-parts of England in 1569 and his Church of Durham in repelling the Archbishop of York his visiting it an 1578. I shall only take notice that whereas he is stiled by certain Authors the false and unworthy Dean of Durham was because he was only Master of Arts the statutes of the Ch. of Durham requiring that the Dean thereof should be Bach. of Divinity at least that he was not a Minister according to the form of the Church of England but of Geneva and that he was but a luke-warm conformist at the best The publick works that he hath done as to learning are 1 His Translation of the Geneva Bible 2 His turning into Meter several of the Psalmes of David as I have before told you 3 His translation into Latine the Liturgie of the Church of
I cannot take to be the same with the former because he of Ch. Ch. seems then to be Master of Arts. As for our R. Bristow he took the Degree of Bach. of Arts in the beginning of the Year 1559 that also of Master in 1562 and was Junior of the Act celebrated 13 of July the same Year at which time he was entred in the Proctors book as a member of Ch. Ch. About that time having obtained great credit among the Academians for his admirable speeches spoken while Junior of the Act he applyed himself to the study of Divinity became noted in the University for his acute parts and being recommended therefore to that singular lover of learning Sir Will. Petre was by him promoted to one of his Scholarships or Fellowships in Exeter Coll. in July 1567 where exercising himself much in Theology did in a set disputation in the Divinity School put the Kings Professor L. Humphrey to a non-plus as those of our Authors perswasion do report At length being convinced that he had erred in his opinion left the Coll. in 1569 his Religion and the Kingdom went to Lovaine and became acquainted with Dr. William Allen who made him the first Moderator or Prefect of studies in the English Coll. by him founded at Doway took upon him the Priesthood being the first in that Coll. that did so and read the publick lecture of Divinity there In 1573 his said Scholarship or Fellowship of Ex. Coll. being pronounced void because he had been absent several years John Petre Son of Sir W. Petre before-mention'd did put into his room Mr. Oliver Whiddon Archdeacon of Totness 27. Oct. but resigned it in the latter end of Nov. following Afterwards upon Dr. Allens instituting another Seminary at Rheimes Bristow was sent for and the care of that place was committed to him also in 1579 while another was his substitute at Doway About which time he took the Degrees in Divinity partly at Doway and partly at Lovaine and became famous in those parts for his Religion and learning He hath written A brief treatise of diverse plaine and sure wayes to find out the truth in this doubtful and dangerous time of heresie containing sundry motives unto the Cath. Faith or considerations to move a Man to believe the Catholicks and not the Hereticks Antw. 1599. in tw and before at another place Dr. W. Allens testimony of this treatise is prefixed dat 30. Apr. 1574 wherein he saith that the said book contains with great perspicuity order and art divers most excellent works whereby to discern in Religion the true judgment of the Catholick Church from the false vanity of the Hereticks c. that it is also in all points Catholick learned and worthy to be read and printed These motives were answered by Dr. Will. Fulke of Cambridge Reply to Will Fulke in defence of Dr. Allens scrowle of articles and book of Purgatory Lov. 1580. qu. Whereupon Dr. Fulke came out with a rejoinder the Year following Anti-Heretica Motiva omnibus catholicae doctrinae orthodoxis cultoribus pernecessaria Atrebat 1608. in two tomes in qu. This large book which contains most if not all the former motives was translated into Lat. by Thom. Worthington a Secular Priest afterwards a Jesuit an 1606. and by him published at Arras two years after Demands 51 in number to be proposed by Catholicks to the Hereticks Several times printed in oct This also was answered in a book entit To the seminary Priests late come over some like Gentlemen c. Lond. 1592. qu. A defence of the Bull of P. Pius 5. He also collected and for the most part wrot Annotations on the New Testament translated into English at Rheimes And was also as it seems Author of Veritates aureae S. R. ecclesiae autoritatibus vet patrum c. Printed 1616. qu. for the name of R. Bristous Anglus is set to that Book At length after our Author had lived at Rheimes about two years went privately into England by his Physicians advice for healths sake in 1581 and going to London was kindly received by and entertain'd in the Family of one Bellamie Rob. or Jerome Bellamie as it seems a sincere and constant Lover of R. Catholicks and their Religion But his distemper being gone too far dyed the year following and was by Bellamie buried pivately year 1582 but where unless near to Harrow on the hill in Middlesex where the Bellamies had a seat and Lands I know not In the Year 1682 I received a note from one of the English Coll. in Doway whereby I was instructed that Rich. Bristow was made D. of D. at Doway from whence he was sent into England where he died not far from London 18. Oct. 1581. But this note I reject because that what I have said already of his death I had from the writings of one that knew him viz. Tho. Worthington who published his Motives GREGORY MARTIN received his first breath at Macksfield near to Winchelsey in Sussex was put in one of the original Scholars of S. Johns Coll. by the Founder thereof Sir Tho. White in 1557 where going thro the usual forms of Logick aad Philosophy with incredible industry took the degree of Master of Arts 1564. Afterwards he was taken into the Family of Thomas the great and mighty Duke of Norfolk to be Tutor to his Son the Lord Philip afterwards Earl of Surrey and his Brethren where continuing for some years it hapned in that time that the said Duke came to Oxon and giving a visit to S. Johns Coll. had an eloquent Speech delivered before him by one of that Society wherein of Gr. Martin he said thus Habes illustrissime Dux Hebraeum nostrum Graecum nostrum Poetam nostrum decus gloriam nostram After he had done with his service in the said Dukes Family and received sufficient rewards for his pains he went beyond the Seas and renouncing his Religion openly for before he was but a Catholick in private he retired to Doway where applying his mind to the studies of Divinity was made a Licentiat in that Faculty in 1575. Afterwards going into Italy he went to Rome to do his Devotions to the places and Temples of the Apostles but making no long stay there he went to Rheimes in France where fixing his station in the English Coll. became publick Professor and one of the Divinity-Readers there He was a most excellent Linguist exactly read and vers'd in the Sacred Scriptures and went beyond all of his time in humane literature whether in Poetry or Prose As for those things he hath written they have been and are taken into the hands of Men of his profession but all that I have seen of them are only these A treatise of Schisme shewing that all Catholicks ought in any wise to abstaine altogether from heretical Conventicles viz. their Prayers Sermons c. Doway 1578. oct A discovery of the manifold corruptions of the Holy Scripture by the Hereticks of our days especially
Benedicti inhumatur monumento laqueis plintheis carchesiis scamno Hypocratis glossocomtis aliis chirurgicis ex Bribasio Galeno machinamentis exornato The Coll. of Physicians was then in Knight-riders-street in London not far from the Church of St. Benedict near Pauls Wharf EDWARD RISHTON of a right ancient Family in Lancashire became a Student in the University about 1568 particularly as it seems in Brasenose College where after he had spent some years in Philosophy and Mathematicks supplicated the Ven. congr of Regents in Apr. 1572 for the Degree of Bach. of Arts having performed all excercise requisite thereunto but whether he was admitted it appears not in the University registers Afterwards he left his native Country and Friends and went to Doway where studying for some time in the English Coll. was made M. of A. Thence he went to Rome in 1577 and after he had consummated certain studies in Divinity was made a Priest in 1580 or thereabouts Soon after he was sent into the Mission of England but before he was quite settled he was taken and kept close Prisoner in the Tower of London and elsewhere 3 or 4 years At length being released his life spared and he condemned to banishment with Jam. Bosgrace a Jesuit John Hart and others he went into France and settled for a time in the University of Pont-à -musson in Loraine to the end that he might proceed in the study of Divinity and take a Degree or Degrees therein but the plague being then there and he careless to avoid it in time was infected therewith and soon after died This is that Edw. Rishton qui impie ingratus as one saith in Principem cui vitam debuit publicatis scriptis malitiae virus illico evomuit The titles of the said writings are these Synopsis rerum ecclesiastiearum ad an chr 1577. Whether in Engl. or Lat. I know not for I have not yet seen it Profession of his faith made manifest and confirmed by 24 reasons or motives It must be now known that Nich. Saunders left behind him at his death two imperfect books De schismate Anglicano with the beginning of the third commencing with the Reign of Q. Elizabeth which coming into the hands of our Author Rishton after he had suffered imprisonment for some time in England he supplied what was defective in them corrected and caused them to be published at Colen 1585. to which he added of his own composition besides the third book which was in a manner all his Rerum pro religione catholica ac inturri Londinensi gestarum ab an 1580. ad an usque 1585 indiculus seu diarium with a preface to it Religiosorum sacerdotum nomina qui pro defensione primatus Rom. Ecclesiae per Martyrium consummati sunt sub Henrico 8. Angliae rege c. Mostly taken out of Saunders his book De visibili Monarchia Ecclesiae c. These additions with the book De Schismate having undergone several impressions as I have told you elsewhere have been since added to them 1 An appendix which makes a fourth book exerpted from certain of the works of Peter Ribadeneira a Jesuit 2 Summarium rationum quibus Cancellarius Angliae Prolocutor Puckeringius Elizabethae Angliae Reginae persuaserunt occidendum esse Mariam Stuartum Scotiae Reginam c. Which being published in English were translated into Latine and had added thereunto Supplicium mors Reginae Scotiae c. by the labour of Romoald Scot 3 Epistola Doctoris Johannis Pistorii Nidani ad D. Jacobum Grynaeum Ministri verbi Ecclesiae Basiliensis 4 Mariae Stuartae Reg. Scotiae innocens à cade Darleanâ— c. written by Obertus Barnestapolius Which four things being added to Rishtons additions to Saunders book De Schismate were all printed together at Colen 1628 in a thick oct What other things our Author Rishton hath extant I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying near to St. Manhou after year 1585 or about Fifteen hundred eighty and five in his flight from Pont-à -mosson to avoid the pest was buried there by the care of Joh. Barnes an English exile the same I suppose with John Barnes the Benedictine Monk whom I shall mention elsewhere I find one Edw. Risden a Secular Priest of the English Coll. at Doway in this Mans time who was afterwards of the Order of Carthusians but he being descended from the Risdens or Risdons of Devonshire must not be taken to be the same as some are apt to do with Edw. Rishton before-mention'd I find also one Edw. Risden or Risdon a Devonian to have been Fellow of Exeter Coll. and Master of Arts 1566 which probably may be the same with the Carthusians sed Qu. HENRY SIDNEY who was learned in many languages and a great lover of learning was born of and descended from a noble Family of his name living at Cranleigh in Surrey became a Student in New Coll. as it seems in 1543 or thereabouts but making no long stay there he went to the Court where he became a coâ—panion to Prince Edward afterwards King Ed. 6. and by him much esteemed In the third year of that Kings Reign he received the honour of Knighthood and was forthwith being then about 22 years of age sent Embassadour into France where he behaved himself far beyond his years In the 2 and 3 of Phil. and Mary he was made general Governour of all the Kings and Queens revenues within the Realm of Ireland and about two years after Lord Justice thereof In the 2 of Qu. Elizab. he was appointed Lord President of the Marches of Wales and 4 years after was made Knight of the honorable order of the Garter having before been employed in one or more Embassies In 1568 in the month of Apr. he was constituted Deputy of Ireland and in Aug. the same year being then at Oxon. he was actually created Master of Arts. Afterwards he was Lord Justice again and twice Deputy of the said Kingdom c. This Person hath written many things which chiefly continue at this time in MS. All that I have seen are A godly letter to his Son Philip. Lond. 1592. oct Since which time have been other letters of his to the said Person made extant two of which I have seen without date as that which begins thus Son Philip I have received two letters from you And the other My Son the virtuous inclination of thy matchless mother c. He hath also written Miscellanies of Irish affairs MS. and caused also the Statutes of Ireland to be first published in print He paid his last debt to nature in the Bishops Pallace at Worcester in his return from Ludlow on the fourth day of May in Fifteen hundred eighty and six year 1586 and was buried 21. of June following in the Church at Penshurst in Kent he having some years before obtained the mannour thereof to him and his posterity for ever The
Scotland thrice to John Basilides Emperor of Russia once to Charles the 9. of France and again to Hen. 3. The Queen of England who knighted him rewarded these his services with the Chamberlaines office in the Exchecquer heretofore a place of great honour and worth the Mastership or office of Comptroller general of the Post horses and with some small Land He hath written An account of his Embassage to the Emperor of Russia an 1568. Remitted into the first vol. of Rich. Hakeluyts voyages Lond. 1598. He then in 1568 procured privileges from the Emperor of Russia for the English Merchants trafficking there Instructions given to and notes to be observed by James Bassendine Jam. Woodcock and Rich. Browne for the searching of the Sea and border of the coast from the river Pechora to the Eastwards an 1588. There was then a commission granted to Sir Thom. Randolphe for the searching of those parts but he entrusted the matter with the 3 Persons before-mention'd See more in the said vol. of voyages by R. Hakeluyt At length after Sir Thomas had painfully spent his time in sundry and frequent Embassies and in continual services of his Prince and Country at home and abroad he quietly surrendred up his last breath in his house at St. Peters hill near to Pauls Wharf in London year 1590 on the 8. of June in Fifteen hundred and ninety aged 67 leaving then behind him several Children that he had by two Wives whereupon his body accompanied by one or two Heralds of armes was buried 6. July following in the Church of St. Peter near to the said Wharf Besides this Tho. Randolphe a Statesman hath been another of both his names of a later date and a most celebrated Poet of his time of whom by the way I desire the reader to know these matters following viz. that he was born at Newnham near to Daintry in Northamptonshire 15 June 1605 Son of Will. Rondolphe of Hams near to Lewis in Sussex Steward to Edw. Lord Zouch by Elizabeth his Wife Dau. of Tho. Smith of Newnham before mentioned educated in Westminster School and went thence being one of the Kings Scholars to Trinity Coll. in Cambridge 1623. of which he became Fellow Afterwards he commenced Master of Arts in which Degree he was incorporated at Oxon became famous for his ingenuity an adopted Son of Benj. Johnson and accounted one of the most pregnant wits of his age the quickness of which was first discovered when he was about 9 or 10 years old when then he wrot the History of the incarnation of our Saviour in verse which is at this day preserved in MS. under his own hand writing When he arrived to Mans Estate and perhaps before he wrot 1 Poems 2 The Muses Looking-glass a Comedy 3 Amyntas or the impossible dowry a Pastoral 4 Aristippus or the jovial Philosopher c. Trag. presented in a private shew 5 The conceited Pedler presented in a strange shew Lond. 1630. qu. 6 Jealous Lovers Tr. Com. 7 Hey for honesty down with knavery Com. Translated out of Aristophanes his Plutus Augmented and published by F. J. Lond. 1651. qu. All which except the last were gathered together and printed in one vol. by the care of his Brother Rob. Randolphe Student of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. being then commended to the world by divers Poets of the said University Several other things of the like nature were expected from the said young Poet Th. Randolphe but by indulging himself too much with the liberal conversation of his admirers a thing incident to Poets brought him untimely to his end in the House of Will. Stafford of Blatherwyke in Northamptonshire Esq having spent some time in that of his Father at Little Houghton in the said County in his delightful studies Whereupon his body being buried in an Isle joyning to the Church at that place among those of the Staffords on the 17 day of March an 1634 had soon after a Monument of white Marble wreathed about with laurel erected over his grave at the charge of Sir Christopher afterwards Lord Hatton of Kirby The inscription on which in Lat. and Engl. ver was made by the Poets Friend Pet. Hausted of Cambridge DAVID POWELL a learned searcher into the bowels of venerable antiquity and the most skilful Person in British histories that his time produced was born in Denbighshire entred a Member of this University in 1566 or thereabouts but in what Coll. or Hall resident I know not Sure 't is that as soon as Jesus Coll. was founded 1571 he translated himself thereunto took the Degrees in Arts as a Member thereof holy Orders and at length was made Vicar of Ruabon in his own Country About that time he had confer'd on him a Dignity in one of the Cathed in Wales St. Asaph I think grew famous for his learning and soon after took the Degrees in Divinity His works are Annotationes in itinerarium Cambriae scriptum per Silv. Giraldum Cambrensem Lond. 1585. oct Franc. 1603. Annot. in Cambr. descriptionem script per Silv. Giraldum De Britannica historia rectè intelligenda Epistola ad Gul Fleetwoodum civit Lond. Recordatorem Which two last books are printed with his Annotationes in Itin. Cambr. He also took a great deal of pains in making a Welsh Dictionary but died before he could perfect it corrected also and published Historia Britannica written by Ponticus Virunnius in 6 books Lond. 1585. oct And amended and augmented The History of Combria now called Wales which was translated into English by Humph. Lhoyd Gent. Lond. 1584. qu. This History of Cambria was originally written in Latin by Caradoc a Monk of Lancarvan and by him continued till the Year 1156. Afterwards being yearly augmented by several hands was as I have told you translated into English by H. Lhoyd as you may see under the Year 1570 but he dying before he could come near to the end of it 't was finished by our Author D. Powell and by him published What else he hath transmitted to posterity I find not nor any thing more of him only that he was buried in his Church of Ruabon as the Antients there say tho the register not because 't is imperfect about Fifteen hundred and ninety year 1590 and that his Son Sam. Powell succeeded him in the Vicaridge of that Village They add also that he had left behind him several things sit to be printed but what became of them after his death they could not tell The next that 〈…〉 is one who was accounted an eminent Scholar of his time as by the generality of writers is confess'd DANIEL ROGERS a most accomplished Gent. of his time who puts in some of his writings the addition of Albimontanus to his name was the Son of John Rogers by his Wife Adriana Pratt alias de Weyden Son of Joh. Rogers of Derytend in the Parish of Aston in Warwickshire was by his Fathers care strictly educated in juvenile learning but at the coming to the Crown of
and printed at London in 1594. in qu. Among them are 1 A preparative to Marriage 2 Treatise on the Lord's Supper 3 Examination of Vsury 4 Benefit of Contentation 5 Affiuity of the Faithful 6 Christians Sacrifice 7 Tryal of Spirits 8 Wedding Garment 9 Way to walk in 10 Pride of Nebuchaduâ—zzar c. There hath been also printed of late times a Quarto Volume containing 53 Sermons besides Discourses Prayers Letters c. Among which is God's Arrows against Atheists c. which hath been translated and printed in Lat. at Openkeim beyond Sea An. 1614. oct All written by the said Henry Smith among which are those numbred that were printed 1594. This Person was in very great renown among Men in fifteen hundred ninety and three in which year if I mistake not he died aged 34. but where he was buried the Register of St. Clements before-mentioned tells us not for his Brother who lived to about the time of the Restauration of King Charles 2. did assure my Friend that he retired for Health's sake out of the said Parish and dyed in another more remote THOMAS COUPER or Cooper was born within the City of Oxon educated in Grammer Learning in the School joyning to St. Mary Magd. Col. being then a Choirister of that House where with very great industry making proficiency beyond his years was elected Probationer in 1539. and in the year following perpetual Fellow of the said House Afterwards proceeding in the Faculty of Arts he was made Master of the School wherein he had been educated left his Fellowship about 1546. and gave himself solely up to the studies of Humanity and Medicine In the Reign of Q. Mary he being then inclined to the Protestant Religion he took as it seems a Degree in Physick and practiced that Faculty in Oxon but when she was dead he re-assumed his former Faculty of Divinity became a frequent Preacher took the Degrees in that Faculty in the latter end of 1566. being about that time made Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon and was several years after Vice-chancelour of the University In 1569. he was made Dean of Glocester in the place of John Man deceased and in 1570. Feb. 24. he was consecrated Bishop of Lincoln In 1584. he was translated to Winchester where as in most parts of the Nation he became much noted for his Learning and sanctity of Life I have heard some reverend and ancient Divines of this University say as they had heard it from others who knew the Man that at what time Dr. Cooper was to leave Oxon to go to the See of dincoln he did humbly confess in his farewel Sermon to the University That he was born of very mean Parents in Cat-street that he had undergone several mean and servile Offices in Magdalen College till by the favour of Friends he was advanced to be Fellow and Schoolmaster c. And so going forward with a recital of the chief parts of his Life did in conclusion humbly acknowledge God's great providence towards him praying withal That he would be pleased to prosper him in that great Imployment which was put upon him c. Of this Person much may be said and perhaps some wrong might redound to his memory if I should say little for he was indeed a reverend man very well learned and exceeding industrious as it appears by that great Dictionary which yet bears his Name and was the cause of his preferment the foundation of which was taken from Sir Tho. Eliot's Dictionary and the materials for the most part from Rob. Stephens's Thesaurus and Joh. Frisius's Lat. and Germ. Dictionary The course of his Life in Oxon was very commendable and in some sort Saint-like if it be Saint-like to live unreproveable to bear a cross patiently and to forgive great Injuries freely this Man's example was without pattern The Truth is he being little acquainted with the World of Men he did unhappily marry an Oxford Woman who proved too light for his gravity and in the end became so notorious for her ill living that the Libels that then came forth did sound out her infamy especially that made by Th Bulkley of Alis col which tells us That a certain Person did so much frequent her Company that at length he was bound in a bond of 100. l. not to come near her Nay another tells us That the whole Vniversity in reverence of the Man and indignity of the matter offered him to separate his Wife from him by publick Anâ—â—ority and to set him free being the innocent Pâ—rts But he would by no means agree thereto alledging he knew his own infirmity that be could not live unmarried and to divorce and marry again he would not charge his conscience with so great a scandal He hath written The Epitome of Chronicles from the 17th year after Christ to 1540. and thence afterwards to the year 156â— Lond. 1560. qu. The Reader is to note that one Thâ— Lanquet a young Man of 24 years of Age had composed a Chron. consisting of two parts reaching from the beginning of the World to the time of our Saviour and was proceeding on a third part but death cutting him off in his eager pursuit of the work in 1545. our Author Cooper undertook to finish it and his part which is the third contains almost thrice as much as the two parts of 〈◊〉 All which being finished a third Person contrary to the Mind of Cooper published all the parts under the Title of Lanquet's Chronicle an 1559. which being very full of faults our Author made a view and correction of and published them in the year following under the general Title of Coper's Chronicle c. with a running Title of Lanquet's Chronicle at the top of every leaf of the first and second part and The Epitome of Chronicles at the top of every leaf of the third part which as I have told you was composed by Cooper who hath further written Thesaurus linguae Romanae Britannicae c. Lond. 1565. in a large fol. This is commonly called Cooper's Dictionary which was so much esteemed by Q. Elizabeth that ever after she endeavoured to promote the Author as high in the Church as she could Of this Dictionary see more in Tho. Eliot under the year 1546. Dictionarium Historicum Poeticum Printed with the former Book A brief exposition of such Chapters of the Old Testament as usually are read in the Church at Common Prayer on the Sundays throughout the year Lond. 1573. qu. Sermon at Lincoln 1575. on Matth. 16. 26 27. Lond. in oct Twelve Sermons on Rom. 1. 16. Matth. 7. 15 16. on 1 Cor. 10. 1. 3. 5. Matth. 13. 3. 5. and Joh. 8. 46. Lond. 1580. qu. An admonition to the People of England wherein are answered not only the slanderous untruths reproachfully uttered by Martin the Libeller but also many other crimes by some of his Brood objected generally against all Bishops c. Lond. 1589. qu. This
book of Jests or Clinches which at length was sold on the stalls of Ballad-mongers This person was living in his middle age in the latter end of Q. Elizabeth but when or where he dyed I cannot tell for so it is and always hath been that most Poets dye poor and consequently obscurely and a hard matter it is to trace them to their Graves FABIAN à NIPHO Son of James à Nipho was born in Italy left his Country for Religion sake went to London where obtaining Letters of recommendation from Robert Earl of Leicester Chanc. of this Univ. dat 19. Oct. 1581. he retired to Oxon for relief So that by virtue of those Letters wherein the Members thereof found that he was a person recommended to them for his great skill in Physick and Philosophy they were pleased to confer on him the degree of Bachelaur of Physick in January following and permitted him to read a Shagling Lecture in that Faculty to gain contributions from the Students thereof How long he continued with us I know not nor how long he read that Lecture Sure it is if you 'l believe him That he having suffered oppression by the wickedness of certain People in England upon what account he tells us not unless we suppose that they suspected him to be a Papist and so dealt with him accordingly he retired to Leyden in Holland where as it farther appears after he had made himself to be believed that he was an honest man the States encouraged his Studies and forthwith he wrote a book which he dedicated to them bearing this title Ophinus seu de caelesti animarum progenie divinatio Lugd. Bat. 1599. qu. There is no doubt but that he hath published other things but such I have not yet seen neither do I yet know to the contrary but that he made a return again to this University THOMAS WILCOCKS or Wilcox a grave and reverend Divine in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth was originally of St. Johas coll but whether ever Fellow thereof their Register shews not His Name stands in the Matricula of the University sub tit coll S. Jo. Bapt. in the year 1564. but I cannot find him Graduated in the publick Register of that time belonging to the University One Tho. Wilcocks a Kentish man was as a Member of St. Albans hall admitted Master of Arts in Febr. 1589. But this I cannot affirm to be the same with the former unless we suppose him to be about 40 years of age when he took that degree as many did in those times at that age after they had been Parsons or Dignitaries many years As for Tho. Wilcocks whom we are farther to mention he retired to London after he had left the University where he became a very painful Minister of God's Word a frequent Writer and Translator and was much resorted to by wavering and dubious Persons for relief and settlement of their Consciences His Writings are Exposition on the book of Canticles or Solomon's Song Lond. 1585. qu. Exposition on certain Verses of the 8. Chap. of the Rom. namely upon Vers 18 19 20 21 22 23. Lond. 1587. oct Short and sound Commentary on the Prov. of Solomon Lond. 1589. qu. Expos on the whole book of Psalms wherein is contained the division and sense of every Psalm c. Lond. 1591. qu. All these were reprinted in one fol. at Lond. 1624. by the care of Dr. Jo. Burges who married the author's Daughter and had this general Title put to them The Works of the Reverend Divine Mr. Tho. Wilcocks Summary and short meditations touching certain points of Christian Religion Lond. 1579. oct Concordance or Table containing the principal words and matters which are comprehended in the New Testament Lond. 1579. oct Answer to Banister the Libertine Lond. 1581. oct Glafs for Gamesters and namely for such as delight in Cards and Dice wherein they may see not only the vanity but also the vileness of those Plays plainly discovered and overthrown by the Word of God Lond. 1581. oct Form of preparation to the Lord's Supper Lond. in oct On the substance of the Lord's Supper shortly and soundly set forth together with c. Lond. 1581. oct Comfortable Letter for afflicted Consciences written to a godly man greatly touched that way Lond. 1584. in tw Three large Letters for instruction and comfort of such as are distressed in Conscience c. Lond. 1589. oct Narration of a fearful Fire at Wooburn in Bedfordsh Lond. 1595. oct He also translated into English 1 A Catechism Lond. 1578. oct originally written by Joh. Fountein 2 Three propositions the first on the 1. Chap. of St. Joh. ver 1. to 5. c. Lond. 1580. written by Jo. Calvin 3 Treatise of the Church wherein the godly may discern the true Church from the Romish c. Lond. 1582. oct written by Bertrand de Loques 4 Discourse of the true visible marks of the Cath. Church Lond. in oct written by Theod. Beza 5 Two Sermons on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper Lond. 1588. oct written by the said Beza whereunto is added The substance of the Lord's Supper mentioned before 6 Bertram the Priest concerning the Body and Blood of Christ c. Lond. 1582. oct See more in Will. Hugh under the year 1549. 7 Meditations on Psal 101. Lond. 1599. oct written in French by Phil. Mornay Lord of Plessis What else our author hath written and translated I know not nor any thing of him beside only that he was living and much in esteem in fifteen hundred ninety and nine Two or more of his Sirname studyed in Broadgates hall in the time of K. Ed. 6. whos 's Christian Names being not in a possibility to be discovered I cannot judge farther of them RICHARD HOOKER that rare and admirable Theologist was born in or near to the City of Exeter about the time of Easter an 1554. of which City some of his Name and Family have been Mayors was exhibited to while a School-boy by John Jewel B. of Sarum became one of the Clerks of C. C. coll in 1567. Scholar 24. Dec. in 73. Fellow and Master of Arts in 77. DeputyProfessor of the Hebrew Language in the University 14. July 1579. entred into Orders and became a frequent Preacher married a clownish silly Woman and withal a meer Xantippe became Rector of Drayton-Beauchamp in Bucks an 1584. Master of the Temple in the year following in the place of Rich. Alvey Bach. of Div. deceased who was the first Canon of the fifth stall in the collegiat Church of St. Peter in Westminster Rector of Boscomb in Wiltshire Sub-dean of the Church of Salisbury and prebendary of Netherhaven in the same Church both which he obtained by the resignation of Dr. Nich. Balgay in July 1591. and at length Rector of Bishops-Bourne near Canterbury by the presentation thereunto of the Queen in 1595. There hath been no learned college in the World that hath yet yielded at one time almost and from
Government he was hang'd at Tyburn near London 30. March in sixteen hundred and one year 1601 So that his body being afterwards buried obscurely without a Memorial or Epitaph be pleased to take this for him made by one that knew him well Doctus eras Graecè felixque tibi fuit Alpha At fuit infelix Omega Cuffe tuum The execution of which person and his unhappy end is brought in by a certain author as a very proper and sutable instance to verifie the great reasonableness of one of his advices to his Son thus Mingle not your interest with a great Man's made desperate by debt or Court-injuries whose breaking out prove fatal to their wisest followers and friends averred in the last Earl of Essex but one where Merick his Steward and Cuff his Secretary tho of excellent parts were both hanged For such unconcocted Rebellions turn seldom to the hurt of any but the parties that promote them being commonly guided by the directions of their Enemies as this was by Cecil whose creatures persuaded Essex to this inconsiderate attempt c. that is to seize the Queen and change the Government Thus far Francis Osborn here quoted of whom and his Works the Reader may please by the way if not too tedious to know these things That he was younger Brother to Sir Pet. Osborn and both the Sons of Sir John Osborn of Chicksand near Shefford in Bedfordshire which Sir John and his Father did both enjoy a quiet happy and plentiful Fortune under Q. Elizabeth That he was bred mostly at home not so much as in a Free School or University being altogether void of such kind of Faculties that Universities afford At ripe years he frequented the Court became a Servant in the Pembrochian Family and at length Master of the Horse to that most Noble Count William Earl of Pembroke In 1641. he ran with the times having been Puritannically educated had publick employments then and under Oliver conferr'd upon him and in his last days lived in Oxon purposely to Print certain books of his compostion that then laid by him and to have an eye on his Son John whom he got by the favour of the Parliamentarian Visitors to be Fellow of Allsouls coll 1648. Those things of his which I have seen extant are these 1 A seasonable expostulation with the Netherlands declaring their ingratitude to and the necessity with their agreement with the Commonwealth of England Ox. 1652. qu. in two sh and half 2 Perswasive to mutual compliance under the present Government Ox. 1652. qu. in two sh 3 Plea for a Free State compared with Monarchy Printed with the former in 4 sh qu. 4 The private Christians non ultra or a plea for the Lay-man's interpreting the Scriptures Ox. 1656. in 3 sh and half in qu. There is no name to it only strongly reported to be Fr. Osborn's 5 Advice to a Son in two parts The first was printed at Ox. in oct an 1656. and within 2 years after were five more impressions of it The second part was printed at Ox. 1658. oct but being not so well liked as the first I cannot justly say whether it had a second impression Both especially the first being greedily bought up and admired in Oxon especially by young Scholars it was then noted among the Godly Ministers that they did instill principles of Atheism into them Whereupon a publick complaint being put up against the said books to the then Vicechanc. Dr. Jo. Conant there was a proposal made to have them publickly burnt But it taking no effect it was ordered 27. July 1658. that no booksellers or any other persons should sell the books which afterwards made them sell the better 6 Political reflections upon the Government of the Turks to which are added in the same book or vol. A discourse upon Nich. Machiavell Observations upon the K. of Sweden's descent into Germany Discourse upon Piso and Vindex who both conspired the death of Nero. The greatness and corruption of the Court of Rome Discourse upon the election of P. Leo XI Political occasions of the defection from the Church of Rome Discourse in vindication of Mart. Luther All these were printed at Ox. in oct at least 3 times 7 Traditional Memoires on the Reign of Q. Eliz. Lond. 1658. oct 8 Trad. Mem. on the Reign of K. James Lond. 1658. oct 9 Miscellany of sundry Essays Paradoxes and Problematical Discourses Letters and Characters Lond. 1659. oct 10 Deductions from the History of the Earl of Essex who was executed for Treason under the Reign of Q. Eliz. Lond. 1659. oct These are all that I have seen and whether he hath any others published I cannot say After his death appeared in publick a book intit A modest plea for an equal Commonwealth against Monarchy c. with other things added to it as An Apology for younger Brothers and A lift at Tythes All printed twice in 1659. in qu. and oct These three Treatises tho they were published by another person as his yet some Scholars more envious than prudent did not stick to say that the publisher found them among the papers of Fr. Osborn with whom he had intimate acquaintance after his death and disguising the Language or making some alterations in published them as his own However all that knew him well and were intimate with him as the writer of these matters was knew him able to write such a book as that was As for Fr. Osborn he died at Nether-worton near to Dedington in Oxfordshire in the house of Will. Draper Esq an Oliverian Colonel whose Sister he had married on the eleventh of Feb. 1658-9 aged 70. or thereabouts and was buried in the Church there Over his Grave is a Monument with an inscription but the contents I know not yet RICHARD LATEWAR a Londoner born educated in Merchant-Taylors School became Scholar of St. Johns coll 1580. and eight years after M. of Arts and a noted Preacher In 1593. he was elected one of the Proctors of the University being about that time Rector of Hopton in Suffolk Afterwards he became Rector of Finchley in Middlesex D. of D. and at length Chaplain to the illustrious Heroe Charles Lord Mountjoy Lieutenant of Ireland He was a most ingenious Latin Poet as his Epigrams and copies of Verses occasionally printed in books published in his life-life-time do shew He composed Carmen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Coll. S. John Bapt. Which was restored and augmented by Rich. Andrews M. D. and Fellow of the said coll Conc. Lat. ad Academicos Oxon. 1594. It was Preached when he was admitted Bac. of Div. but upon what subject or when printed I know not for I have not yet seen it What other things of his are published I cannot find neither is there any need to be said more of him than what the learned Camden hath delivered of the overthrow of the Rebels in Ireland near to Carlingford given by the L. Mountjoy before-mentioned thus On
Registers which are in the time of K. Ed. 6. very imperfect shew not Afterwards retiring to his Native place he became the first Chamberlain thereof an 1554. about which time applying himself to the study of Astronomy and English History became noted in his time for them especially after he had published his labours for the benefit of Posterity in these books following Order and usage of keeping the Parliaments in England Lond. 1572. qu. The Events of Comets or blazing Stars made upon the sight of the Comet Pagonia which appeared in the month of Nov. and Dec. 1577. Lond. in oct An addition to the Chronicles of Ireland from 1546. where they ended to the year 1568. Lond. 1587. fol. This addition is in the second vol. of the Chronicles first collected and published by Raphael Holinshed Will. Harrison and others The said Chronicles of Ireland did begin an 1186. about which time Giraldus Cambrensis concluded his Irish History and were continued by several hands to the said year 1546. A Catalogue or History of the Bishops of Exeter from Werestan as he calls him to John Woolton an 1579. Remitted into the third vol. of Ra. Holinshed's Chronicles Lond. 1587. fol. pag. 1300. He also translated into English the Irish History of Giraldus before-mentioned and put Scholias to the same which being by him dedicated to Sir Walt. Raleigh with a large Epistle were remitted into the second vol. of the Chronicles of Ra. Holinshed Will. Harrison and others Lond. 1587. fol. He also took great pains in augmenting and continuing to the year 1586. the said first and second vol. of Chronicles which were also printed at London 1587. fol. The first impression of the said Chronicles were made at Lond. 1577. in fol. by the said R. Holinshed descended from those of his name that lived at Boseley in Cheshire educated in one of the Universities was a Minister of God's Word as I have heard and died at Bramcote in Warwickshire towards the latter end of 1580. Whereupon all or most of his notes collections books and MSS. came into the hands of Thom. Burdet Esq an inhabitant if not Lord of the said Town of Bramcote As for our author John Hooker he lived to a fair age and dying in Nov. year 1601 in sixteen hundred and one was buried at Exeter He gave up his Chamberlains place about a quarter of a year before he died and was succeeded therein by Will. Tickell There hath been two of the Hookers that have been Mayors of Exeter viz. Joh. Hooker in 1490. and Rob. Hooker in 1529. from one or both of which I presume our author Joh. Hooker was descended as also Rich. Hooker the eminent author of Eccles Policy CROMWELL LEA a younger Son of Sir Anth. Lea or Lee of Burston in Bucks Knight by his Wife the Daughter of Sir Thomas Wyat Knight descended from the Lees of Quarendon in the said County was educated in all inferiour Arts in this University and afterwards travelling and spending several years in Italy he attained to so great knowledge in the common Language of that Country that at his return he wrote A Dictionary in Italian and English Which tho it reaches but to the Word Tralingnato and so consequently wanteth the following Letters to the end of the Alphabet yet it is as big as a Church-Bible This book the author giving in MS. to the Library of St. Johns coll in this University of which coll he had been sometimes a Commoner about its first foundation the Society did so highly value it that one of them named Tho. Poticarie M. of A. and Bach. of the Civil Law did transcribe it in a very fair character Which being so done it was reposed in their Library as a choice thing and is at this day among the printed books B. 31. This Crom. Lea who had married Mary the Relict of Rich. Taverner mentioned under the year 1575. died at his house in Halywell in the North Suburb of Oxon about the beginning of Winter in sixteen hundred and one year 1601 but where buried I know not Whereupon this Epitaph was made on him by an Oxford Scholar Here lyeth old Cromwell Who living lov'd the Bum well When he dy'd he gave nothing to the poor But half to his Bastards and half to his Whore JOHN CHARDON or Charldon a Devonian born became a Sojourner of Exeter coll in 1562. or thereabouts made Probationer thereof 3. March 1564. perpetual Fellow in Octob. two years after entred into Holy Orders in Aug. 1567. being then Bach. of Arts and resigned his Fellowship on the 6. Apr. in the year after About that time being beneficed in his own Country particularly within the City of Exeter he proceeded soon after in Arts became a noted Preacher and wonderfully followed for his edifying Sermons In 1581. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences or the Epistles of St. Paul as it was then among the Puritans stiled proceeded in Divinity five years after and in 1596. in May he was consecrated Bishop of Down and Connor in the Church of St. Patrick at Dublin in Ireland All that are extant of his writing are only Several Sermons Preached in the Churches of St. Peter in Exeter St. Maries in Oxon and at S. Pauls-Cross in the City of Lond. viz. 1 Sermon of the World on Luke 21. 25. Lond. 1580. oct 2 Serm. at S. Mar. in Ox. on Joh. 9. 1 2 3. Ox. 1586. oct 3 Serm. at S. Mar. Ox. 11. Dec. 1586. on Joh. 9. 4 5 6 7. Lond. 1587. oct 4 Serm. at Pauls-cross 29. May 1586. on Matth. 6. 19 20 21. Lond. 1586. oct 5 Fun. Serm. on 1 Thes 4. from 13. to 18. verse Ox. 1586. oct He hath another Sermon extant on Isay 1. ver 1 2. Lond. 1595. but this and others which he hath printed as I conceive I have not yet seen nor do I know any thing of him besides save only that he died in Ireland in sixteen hundred and one year 1601 but where buried unless in his own Cath. Church I cannot tell The next in order according to time to be mentioned is a most reverend and learned Divine and an ornament to his profession in the long Reign of Q. Elizabeth ALEXANDER NOWELL the second Son of John Nowell of Great Meerley in Lancashire was born in that County in 1511. and at 13 years of age became a Commoner of Brasmose college where profiting much in Grammar Logick and Philosophy took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1536. He was afterwards Fellow of that house Master of Arts and grew very famous for Religion and Learning In the Reign of Ed. 6. and perhaps before he taught School at Westminster where he very zealously trained the Youth up in Protestant principles but when Q. Mary began to Reign he among other Divines much averse to the R. Cath. Religion did leave the Kingdom for Conscience sake and lived as opportunity served in Germany Upon the coming of Q. Elizabeth to the Crown he
1 The Song of Songs which was Solomons metaphrased in English heroicks by way af dialogue Lond. 1621. qu. dedic to Hen. King Archd. of Colchester Son to the Bishop of Lond. 2 The Brides ornament Poetical Essayes upon a Divine Subject In two books Lond. 1621. qu. The first dedic to Jo. Argall Esq the other to Philip Brother to Henry King 3 Funeral Elegy consecrated to the memory of his ever honoured Lord John King late B. of London c. 1621. He also wrote a Book of Meditations of Knowlege Zeal Temperance Bounty and Joy And another containing Meditations of Prudence Obedience Meekness God's Word and Prayer Which two books of Meditations were intended by the author for the Press at the same time with the former Poetry But the ever lamented loss of his most honoured Lord which did change all his Joys into Sorrows and Songs to Lamentation did defert their publication and whether they were afterwards published I know not HENRY BILLINGSLEY Son of Roger Billingsley of the City of Canterbury did spend some time among the Muses in this University as others did who were afterwards Traders in London particularly Benedict Burnham of St. Albans hall afterwards a rich Citizen Sheriff and Alderman of London But before our author Billingsley had continued there three years in which time as 't is probable he became known to an eminent Mathematician called Whytehead then or lately a Fryer of the Order of St. Augustine in Oxon he was taken thence and bound an Apprentice to an Haberdasher as it seems in London Afterwards setting up for himself he became so rich that he was made successively Sheriff Alderman one of the Queen's Customers in the Port of London and at length 1596. Lord Mayor thereof and a Knight But the chief matter which I am to let the Reader know concerning him is that when the said Whytehead was put to his shifts after the demolition of his house in the latter end of Hen. 8. he was received by Billingsley into his Family and by him maintained in his old age in his house in London In which time he learned Mathematicks of him and became so excellent in them that he went beyond many of his time whether Lay-men or profess'd Scholars When Whytchead died he gave his Scholar all his Mathematical observations that he had made and collected together with his notes on Euclids Elements which he had with great pains drawn up and digested Afterwards our author Billingstey translated the said Elements into English and added thereunto plain Declarations and Examples manifold additions Scholias annotations and inventions from the best Mathematicians both in time past and in the age he lived in Which being done he published them under this title The Elements of Geometry of the mos ancient Philosopher Euclide of Megara faithfully translated into the English tongue Whereunto are added certain Scholias annotations c. Lond. 1570. fol. To which book Dr. Joh. Dce did put a large Mathematical Preface containing a great deal of Learning pertaining to that Science As for Billingsley he departed this mortal life in a good old age 22. year 1606 Nov. in sixteen hundred and six and some weeks after his body was buried in a little Vault under his Pew in the Church of S. Catherine Colman in London What or where was the end of Whytehead I cannot tell yet thus much I know that what I have said relating to him and Billingsley concerning Mathematicks I had from the Mathematical observations of our Antiquary Brian Twyne and he from the information of that noted Mathematician Mr. Th. Allen of Glouc. hall and he from an eminent Physician called Reb. Barnes M. D. who was elected Fellow of Merton coll 29. Hen. 8. dom 1537. and remembred and had some acquaintance with Whytehead and Billingsley I find also one Rob. Billingsley who was not long since a teacher of Arithmetick and Mathematicks and author of a little book of Arith. and Algebra called An Idea of Arithmetick c. Whether he was descended from or related to Sir Henry I know not JOHN SAVILE elder Brother to Sir Henry Son of Henry Savile of Over-Bradley in Staneland near to Eland not far from Halifax in Yorkshire Esq was born in that County particularly as it seems at Over-Bradley became a Commoner of Brasnose coll in 1561. or thereabouts where laying a considerable foundation of Acad. learning was taken thence before he could attain to a degree in the University and sent to the Middle-Temple where making great proficiencie in the Municipal Laws was called to the Bar fell into considerable Practice became Autumn-reader of that house 28 Elizab. dom 1586. Steward of the Seigniory or Lordship of Wakefield in his own Country called to the degree and honour of the Coif in 1594 made one of the Barons of the Exchequer 98. and about that time one of the Justices of Assize When K. James came to the Crown he not only continued him in his Barons place 4. Apr. but also conferred on him just before his Coronation the honour of Knighthood 23. July following an 1603. being then one of the Judges that was to attend that Solemnity He left behind him at his death certain things fit for the Press of which only this following is as yet made publick Reports of divers special Cases as well in the Court of Common Pâ—eas as of the Exchequer in the time of Q. Elizabeth Lond. 1675. in a thin fol. Printed in old French in a black character and published by John Richardson of the Inner-Temple Sir Jo. Savile paid his last debt to nature at London on the 2. of Feb. in sixteen hundred and six aged 61. whereupon his body was buried in the Church of St. Dunstans in the West in Fleetstreet London and his heart carried to Medley in Yorkshire where it was buried in an Isle joyning on the South side of the Church belonging to that place Soon after was a very fair Monument erected over it with the Effigics thereon of the Defunct in his Judges Robes cut out from stone laying thereon The Reader is to know that there was one John Savile a great pretender to Poetry in the beginning of the Reign of K. James 1. patronized in his studies by his kinsman a young Spark called George Savile Son of Sir George Savile Knight which John wrote among several things K. James his entertainment at Theobalds with his welcome to London and a salutory Poem Lond. 1603. qu. This I thought fit to let the Reader know lest Posterity may take him to be the same with Sir Jo. Savile before-mentioned The Name and Family of the Saviles are numerous in Yorkshire and pretend to be descended from the Savelli in Italy a Family accounted by some to be the ancientest in the World having been in Italy about 3000 years some of which have been Consuls before and after the time of our Saviour But how any of our Saviles in England can make it out that
made Archdeacon of Winchester His Works are Carmina in mortem duorum fratrum Suffolciensium Henrici Caroli Brandon c. Lond. 1552. qu. De Pii V. Gregorii XIII furoribus contra Elizabetham Reginam Angliae Lond. 1582. oct An Exhortation to true Love Loyalty and Fidelity to her Majesty Lond. 1587. oct Treatise against Treasons Rebellions and such Disloyalties Printed with the Exhortation to c. Syntagma hortationum ad Jacobum Regem Angliae Lond. 1604. oct and translated from English into Latin An apology or defence of Priests Marriages written by Joh. Poynet or Ponet B. of Winchester The other Works done by him may be seen in a certain author who knew Rhenniger well which made him therefore say of him In omni bonarum literarum ac linguarum genere it a se exercuit ut famam non vulgarem inde meruit He died on the 26. of Aug. year 1609 in sixteen hundred and nine aged 89 years and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Crawley before-mentioned under the Communion Table Over his Grave was soon after a Marble Stone laid with an inscription thereon in prose and verse a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 197. b. This Dr. Rhenniger died rich left a fair Estate some of which laid in Lincolnshire and a Son named Samuel to injoy it In his Archdeaconry of Winchester succeeded Dr. Ranulph Barlow of Cambridge THOMAS SMITH was born of sufficient Parents in a Town called Abendon in Bâ—rkshire educated in Grammar learning there in the Free School founded by Joh. Royse Citizen and Mercer of London an 1563. became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1570. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 78. and six years after was elected one of the Proctors of the University About that time he being esteemed a religious and a discreet Gentleman was made Secretary to that popular Count Robert Earl of Essex who had an especial respect for him So that being thereupon introduced into the Court raised himself meerly by his own merits to considerable eminency as first to be Clerk to the High Court of Parliament afterwards to be one of the Clerks of the Council a Knight in 1603. Secretary of the Latin Tongue and one of the Masters of the Requests 'T is supposed by some and confidently reported by others that are learned that tho he lived not to publish any thing yet several matters he left behind him fit for the Press but of what Subject or Faculty they treat I could never learn He deceased in the prime of his years whereby a stop was given to his father promotion at his house called Parsons Green near to London 28. Nov. in sixteen hundred and nine year 1609 whereupon his body was buried in the Parish Church of Fulham in Middlesex on the 7. of Dec. following Over his grave was soon after erected a comely monument by his disconsolate Widdow Frances the Daughter of William Lord Chandois afterwards the Wife of Thom. Earl of Exeter by whom he had a Son named Robert who was entred a Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. in Mich. Term an 1620. aged 15. and became an Inheritor for a time several Lands which his Father left to him particularly the Mannor of Barwick upon Tease in Yorks The said Sir Thomas bequeathed a considerable sum of Money to this University to buy books for the new or East part of the Publick Library as also a Mathematical instrument gilt besides 100 l. to the poor of Abenaon for their relief All which was accordingly done and setled by his younger Brother Rich. Smith sometimes a Member of Ch. Ch. also who had been prime Mourner at his Brothers Funeral I find another Sir Tho. Smyth to have been of Bidborough in Kent second Son of Tho. Smith of Ostenhanger in the same County Esq who dying 7. June 1591. was buried in the Church of Ashsord adjoyning Son of John Smith of Corsham in Wilts Gent. Which Sir Thomas who had sarmed the Customs in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth and therefore by some called Customer Smith was so much in favour with K. James that he sent him Embassador to the Emperour of Russia 19. Mar. 1604. From whence returning he was made Governour of the Society of Merchants trading to the East-Indies Musâ—â—ie the French and Summer Islands and Treasurer for the Colonies and Companies of Virginia There goes under this Man's name a book intit Sir Thomas Smith's voyage and entertainment in Russia with the tragical ends of two Emperours and one Empress within one Month during his being there c. Lond. 1605. qu. But him I take not to be the author because it was published unknown to him and without his consent What else I find of him is that his fair and magnificent house at Deptford near to London was burnt on 30. Jan. 1618. and that upon several complaints against him for certain frauds used by him in withdrawing sums of Money in his Rectorship and place of Treasurer before mentioned he was removed from those imployments in Apr. 1619. His eldest Son Sir Joh. Smith married Isabel Daughter of Rob. Earl of Warwick and another the Natural Daughter of Charles Blount Lord Mountjoy without the consent of his Father in Nov. 1618. but in the middle of July following he upon some discontent left England without taking leave of his Father or Wife Besides these two I find another famous Sir Tho. Smith who went before them not only in time but eminence His native place was Saffron-Walden in Essex his Parents John Smith of the same place and Agnes the Daughter and Heir of one Charnock Gent. and the place of Academical education Queens coll in Cambridge where at riper years he was made choice of such was his proficiency in learning to be sent into Italy at the King's charges and there to be educated in certain kinds of learning which our Universities at home could not then yield or rather for the compleat polishing of his parts and studies After his return he became so eminent for his acquired learning that he was not only made the publick Orator of Cambridge but also the King's Professor of the Greek Tongue and at length the King's Professor of the Civil Law in which Faculty he was incorporated Doctor at Cambridge in 1542. and afterwards at Oxon but the particular time when it appears not through the imperfectness of the Registers of that time In the Reign of Ed. 6. he found so much favour with the Duke of Somerset that he was made one of the Secretaries Sir Will. Cecill being the other to that King a Knight Steward of the Stanneries and Dean of Carlile in the place of one Lancelot Salkeld then ejected About the same time also he became Provost of Eaton coll whereof he had very well merited but when Q. Mary came to the Crown she deprived him of those dignities assigning
which was discovered two years after in England was then there known and Prayers sent up to God Almighty for a prosperous success thereof from certain passages therein drawn as 't is said in the title out of the holy Scripture which he then publickly read before them some i' not all of which are these Psal. 2. p. 25 confirm their hearts in hope for the redemption is not far off The year of visitation draweth to an end and jubulation is at hand Psal. 2. p. 32. But the memory of novelties shall perish with a crack as a ruinous house falling to the ground Ibid. p. 33. He will come as a flame that burneth out beyond the Furnace c. His fury shall fly forth as Thunder Psal. 4. p. 54. The crack was heard into all Lands and made Nations quake for fear Ibid. p. 66. In a moment canst thou crush her bones c. All which passages delivered from the Pulpit by that learned and godly Archbishop being then generally believed I must make bold to tell the Reader being an eager pursuer of Truth that by the several Copies of the said Books which I have seen it doth not appear at all that they were printed at Rome or elsewhere and if it may really be guessed by the make or mould of the Letter wherewith they were printed I should rather take them as one or more Doctors of this University do the like to have been printed either at Rheimes or Doway or not unlikely at Antwerp for at Rome there were seldome before that time then or since such sine or clear letters used as by multitudes of Books which I have seen that were printed at that place appears nor indeed ever were or are any English Books printed there Our author Buckland hath also written An Embassage from Heaven wherein our Lord Christ giveth to understand his indignation against all such as being catholickly minded dare yeild their presence to the rites and publick prayers of the Malignant Church Printed in octavo but where or when it appears not either in the beginning or end of the said Book He also translated from Lat. into English a Book entit De persecutione Vandelica lib. 3. Written by Victor Bishop of Biserte or Benserte in Africa Which Bishop was in great renown according to Bellarmine an Ch. 490. Also the six Tomes of Laur. Surius entit De vitis Sanctorum Which translation I have seen often quoted under the name of Robert instead of Ralph Buckland What else our zealous Author hath written and translated I find not as yet nor any thing else of him only that he dying in sixteen hundred and eleven year 1611 was buried I presume in his own Country near to the Graves of his Ancestors who were all zealous R. Catholicks but since not He left behind him among the Brethren the character of a most pious and seraphical person a person who went beyond all of his time for fervent devotion FRANCIS THYNNE was lineally descended from Thom. at the Inne otherwise Thynne of Stretton in Shropshire Son of Ralph Botevill of the same place descended from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living elsewhere was educated in Grammaticals in Tunbridge School in Kent in which County as it seems he was born where being fitted for higher learning by Jo. Proctor Master thereof whom I have mentioned elsewhere was thence sent to this University at which time several of his Sirname of Wilts studied there and one of both his names and a Knight's Son of the same County was a Commoner of Magd. coll in 1577. Whether our author Franc. Thynne went afterwards to Cambridge or was originally a Student there before he came to Oxon I cannot justly say it Sure it is that his Genie tempting him to leave the crabbedness of Logick and Philosophy and to embrace those delightful studies of Histories and Genealogies he became at length one of the Officers of Arms by the title of Blanch-Lyon and afterwards Herald by that of Lancaster which he kept to his dying day His works are The Annals of Scotland in some part continued from the time in which Ra. Holinshed left being an 1571. unto the year 1586. Lond. 1586. fol. There are also the catalogues of the Protectors Governours or Regents of Scotland during the King's Minority or the Minority of several Kings or their insufficiency of Government There are also the catalogues of all Dukes of Scotland by creation or descent of the Chancellours of Scotland Archbishops of St. Andrews and divers writers of Scotland Catalogue of English Cardinals Set down in R. Holinsheds Chron. at the end of Q. Mary Used and followed in many things by Francis Bishop of Landaff in his Cat. or Hist of them at the end of his book De Praesubibus Angliae Com. Cat. of the Lord Chancellours of England MS. From which as also from the endeavours made that way by Rob. Glover sometimes Somerset Herald and of Tho. Talbot formerly Clerk of the Records in the Tower of London John Philpot Som. Herald did frame his Cat. of the Chanc. of England c. Lond. 1636. qu. The perfect Embassador treating of the antiquity privileges and behaviour of men belonging to that function c. This was published in 12o. in the times of the late Usurpation and therefore is supposed to be very imperfect A discourse of Arms wherein is shewed the blazon and cause of divers English Forreign and devised Coats together with certain Ensigns Banners Devises and Supporters of the Kings of England MS. sometimes in the Library of Ralph Sheldon of Beoly Esq now by his gift 1684. among the books of the College of Arms near St. Pauls Cath. in London The beginning of this MS. written to Sir Will. Cecyll Lord Burghley is this I present unto your rare judgment right honourable and my singular good Lord no vulgar conceit of Armory c. The discourse is dated from Clarkenwell-Green 5. Jan. 1593. Several collections of Antiquities notes concerning Arms monumental Inscriptions c. MS. in Cottons Lib. under Cleopatra C. 3. p. 62. Miscellanies of the Treasury MS. written to Tho. Lord Buckhurst an 1599. Epitaphia sive monumenta Sepulchrorum Anglicè Latinè quam Gallicè MS. in a thin fol. in the hands of Sir Henry St. George Clarenceaux K. of Arms. The said Inscriptions with Arms and Epitaphs were collected in his travels through several parts of England and through some of France and have been ever acceptable to such curious men and Antiquaries that have had the happiness to see them Several of his collections were transferred to obscure hands which without doubt would be useful if they might be perused but 't is feared by some that they are turned to waste paper I have seen divers collections of Monuments made by him from Peterborough Cath. in 1592. several of which Mon. were lost and defaced before Sir Will. Dugdale or Sim. Gunton made their respective surveys of that ancient Edifice an 1640. 41.
book written by the hand of Blackwell and subscribed by him as fit for the Press So that no other name being put to it hath caused our Librarians to insert him in the Catalogue of MSS. as the author of it whereas he was not but rather Franc. Tresham as I have told you elsewhere He the said Blackwell died suddenly having been much troubled with swooning fits on the 12. of Januar. in sixteen hundred and twelve and was buried as I conceive in some Church in London This next person according to time and order that must crave place is one who tho no writer worth the remembrance yet hath he been the greatest promoter of learning that hath yet appeared in our Nation THOMAS BODLEY another Ptolomey eldest Son of John Bodley of the City of Exeter by Joan his Wife Daughter and Heir of Rob. Hone of Otterie S. Mary in Devon Esq Son of Joh. Bodley of Tiverton second Son of John Bodley of Dunscumbe near Crediton in Devon Gent. was born in the said City of Exeter 2 Mar. 1544. partly educated in Grammar learning in the said City but mostly in Geneva while his Father lived there as a voluntary Exile in the time of Q. Mary where tho he was then very young yet he was an auditor of Chevalerius in Hebrew of Berealdus in Greek of Calvin and Beza in Divinity and of some other professors in the University there then newly erected besides his domestical teachers in the house of Philebertus Saracenus a famous Physician in that City with whom he was boarded where Rob. Constantinus that made the Greek Lexicon read Homer to him After the death of Q. Mary he returned into England with his Father and was sent to Magd. coll in 1559. where making great proficiency in Logick and Philosophy under Mr. Laur. Humphrey was admitted Bach. of Arts in Jul. 1563. and soon after being elected Probationer of Merton coll determined in the Lent following In 1565. he by the perswasion of some of the Fellows of that house and for his private exercise did read publickly for some years a Greek Lecture in the hall of that coll without expectation of any reward or stipend for his labour Nevertheless it pleased the Society to allow him soon after of their own accord four Marks by the year In 1566. he was admitted Master of Arts which degree being compleated he read Nat. Philosophy for an year in the Pub. Schools then situated on the East side of Schoolstreet In 1569. he was elected Junior Proctor of the University which office he performing with great commendations bestowed some time in the study of sundry Faculties without any inclination to profess any one above the rest At length being desirous to travel beyond the Seas for the obtaining of knowledge of some special modern tongues and for the increase of his experience in the managing of affairs to no other end but to imploy himself and all his cares in the publick Service of the State did with leave from the Warden and Society of his coll depart England with the allowance belonging to a traveller an 1576. and continued near 4 years in Italy France and Germany Afterwards returning to his coll he remained there for some time in studying politicks and historical affairs and in 1583. he was made Esquire of the Body to Q. Elizabeth At length in 1585. having about that time married Anne the Daughter of… Carew of the City of Bristow the rich Widdow as I have heard of one Ball was imployed by the Queen to Frederick K. of Denmark Julius Duke of Brunswyke William Lantgrave of Hesse and other German Princes Which imploymnet being faithfully performed he was sent to K. Hen. 3. of France at what time he was forced by the Duke of Guise to leave Paris In 1588. he was sent to the Hague for the better conduct of the Queen's affairs in the Vnited Provinces where making his residence for some years was admitted one of their Council of State took place in their Assemblies next to Count Maurice and gave a suffrage in all that was proposed In 1593. he returned into England for a time to look after his private Estate but was soon after remanded to the Hague again by the Q. where continuing near one year returned again to deliver some secret overtures to her and to perform thereupon an extraordinary service Soon after the applauding the fruit of his discoveries he was presently commanded to return to the States with charge to pursue those affairs to performance which he had secretly proposed At length all things being concluded and brought to the desired issue he procured his last revocation in 1597. At his return as before in his absence Burleigh the Lord Treasurer did several times tell the Queen that there was not any Man in England so meet as Bodley to undergo the office of Secretary by reason of his well-tryed Wisdom in the Low-Country affairs intending that he should be Colleague with his Son Rob. Cecill But the Earl of Essex commending him also to the Queen in a higher manner not without biting calumniations of Cecill Burleigh found means to divert the Queens mind from him supposing that Essex endeavoured to gain him to his party against Burleigh and Cecill So that Mr. Bodley being eased of ever expecting that troublesome office he retired from the Court and wholly commended himself to the care and provision for learning worthy indeed the care of the greatest King For about that time setting up his staff at the Library door in Oxford did restore or rather new found it the particulars of which I have elsewhere told you After K. Jam. came to the Crown he received the Honour of Knight from him and a few years before his death wrote His Life an 1609. Which being kept as a choice rarity in the archives of his Library was published at Oxon. 1647. qu. But this little thing is not the reason that I put him among the Oxford Writers but because by his noble and generous endeavours he hath been the occasion of making hundreds of publick Writers and of advancing in an high degree the Commonwealth of learning in which respect he should have craved the first place but I have put him here according to the time of his death which is the method I observe Letters of State Some of which I have seen published not in one vol. but scatteredly Letters relating to Books and Learning Written to Mr. Tho. James MS. in his Lib. He paid his last debt to nature 28. Jan. in sixteen hundred and twelve and was buried with very great solemnity at the upper end of Merton coll Choire The manner of which you may see at large in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 320. The Reader may be pleased now to understand that Dr. Joh. Morris Canon of Ch. Ch. did bequeath to the University of Oxon. a Rent-charge of 5 l. per an to be given to a Master of Arts that should make
time concerning the Voyages and Travels of several persons he compiled a book intit English Voyages Navigations Trafficks and Discoveries Lond. 1598. 99. and 1600. in three vol. in fol. Which work being by him performed with great care and industry cannot but be an honour to the Realm of England because possibly many Ports and Islands in America that are base and barren and only bear a name for the present may prove rich places in future time Notes of certain Commodities in good request in the East Indies the Molucoes and China MS. among those given by Seldens Executors to the Pub. Lib. at Oxon. He also illustrated by diligent observation of time and with most useful notes Peter Mart. Anglericus his eight Decades De novo orbe Par. 1587. oct and corrected and much amended and translated into English The discoveries of the World from the first original unto the year of our Lord 1555. Lond. 1601. qu. briefly written in the Portugal tongue by Anth. Galvano Governour of Ternate the chief Island of the Molucoes As also from the said Language into our English tongue Virginia richly valued by the description of the main Land of Florida her next Neighbour Lond. 1609. qu. He paid his last debt to nature 23. Nov. in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 and was buried in the Abbey Church of Westminster dedicated to S. Peter on the 26. of the same month leaving behind him a Son named Edmund begotten on the body of Frances his Wife to whom he left his Mannor of Bridgplace and several tenements in Tuttlestreet within the City of Westminster Oliver Hackluyt Brother to the said Richard was a Student of Ch. Ch. also and being graduated in Physick had an happy hand in the practice of it In R. Hakluyts Prebendship of Westminster succeeded Joh. Holt of Cor. Ch. coll as I shall tell you elsewhere JOHN SMITH was born in Warwickshire elected Scholar of S. Johns coll into a Coventry place an 1577. aged 14. and at length was made Fellow and highly valued in the University for piety and parts especially by those that excelled in both Soon after he grew to that note that he was chosen being then Bach. of Div. to be Lecturer in S. Pauls Cathedral in London in the place of that great Man Dr. Lauc Andrews which he discharged not only to the satisfaction but applause of most judicious and learned hearers witnessed by their frequency and attention Not long after he was removed to a Pastoral Charge at Clavering in Essex where being fix'd he shined as a Star in its proper sphere and was much reverenced for his Religion learning humility and holiness of Life He was skilful in the original Languages an excellent Text-man well read in writers that were of note in several ages of the Church which may partly appear from these things following that he wrote viz. The Substance and Pith of Prayer or a brief holy and heavenly Exposition on the Lord's Prayer being the Summ and Marrow of divers Sermons c. on Matth. 6. 9. Lond. 1629. qu. The Essex Dove presenting the World with a few of her Olive branches c. delivered in three several Treatises viz. 1. The Grounds of Religion 2. An Expoon the Lord's Prayer 3. A Treatise of Repentance Lond. 1629. qu. The poor Penitent or the Doctrine of Repentance Preached in divers Sermons c. Lond. 1629. qu. in 14 Lectures published by John Hart. Exposition on the Creed Lond. 1632. fol. Explanation of the Articles of our Christian Faith Which two last books were delivered in 73 Sermons He concluded his last day in the month of Nov. in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 and was buried in the Church of Clavering before-mentioned leaving then by his Will several books to St. Johns coll Library I have mentioned several John Smiths in this work that were Divines See under the year 1596. and elsewhere THOMAS SPARKE received his first breath in Lincolnshire at South-Somercote as it seems became perpetual Fellow of Magd. coll in 1570. in which year he was admitted Bach. of Arts. Soon after by the favour of Arthur Lord Grey he was preferred to the Parsonage of Bletchley in Bucks where he was held in great esteem for his piety In the year 1575. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences without ruling in Arts and about that time was Chaplain to Dr. Cooper Bish of Linc. who that year bestowed the Archdeaconry of Stow on him in the place of Rog. Kelke Bach. of Div. who had succeeded Joh. Harrison in that Dignity 1563. In 1581. he proceeded in Divinity being then in great renown for his learning But his Dignity being remote from his Cure and therefore could not well attend it he gave it up out of Conscience sake in 1582. and contented himself only â—ith Bletchley whereupon Joh. Farmery B. D. succeeded him therein This Dr. Sparke was the person who being noted for a great Nonconformist and a Pillar of Puritanism was by Letters from the King's Council called to the Conference at Hampton-Court an 1603. where appearing in the behalf of the Millinaries as 't is said or rather with Jo. Rainolds as a Proctor for the precise Party not in a Priests Gown or Canonical Coat but such that Turky Merchants wear received then so great satisfaction from his Majesty's most ready and apt Answers to the Doubts and Objections there and then proposed that he tho he spoke not one word did not only for the time following yield himself in his practice to Universal Conformity but privately by word and writing and publickly by his brotherly perswasion He was a learned Man a solid Divine well read in the Fathers and so much esteemed for his profoundness gravity and exemplary life and conversation that the Sages of the University thought it fit after his death to have his picture painted on the wall in the School-gallery among the English Divines of note there viz. between that of Dr. Joh. Spenser of C. C. coll whom I have mentioned under the year 1614. and that of Dr. Rich. Eedes of Ch. Ch. He hath written A comfortable Treatise for a troubled Conscience Lond. 1580. oct Brief Catechism with a form of Prayer for Householders Taken as it seems from the Catechism of Vrsinus Sermon Preached at Cheyneys in Bucks at the burial of the E. of Bedford 14. Sept. 1585. on Apoc. 14. 13. Lond. 1585. oct c. Treatise to prove that Ministers publickly and Householders privately are bound to Catechise their Parishioners and Families c. Oxon. 1588. oct Answer to Mr. Joh. de Albines notable discourse against Heresies Oxon. 1591. qu. Serm. at the Funeral of the Lord Grey on Esay 57. 1 2. Ox. 1593. oct The High-way to Heaven by the clear Light of the Gospell c. against Bellarmine and others in a Treatise made upon 37 38 and 39 verses of the 7. of John c. Lond. 1597. oct A brotherly perswasion to Unity and Uniformity in Judgment and
most lofty insolent and passionate As for the remaining part of his life it was sometimes low and sometimes in a middle condition and often tossed by fortune to and fro and seldome at rest He was one that fortune had pickt up out of purpose of whom to make an example or to use as her Tennis-Ball thereby to shew what she could do for she tost him up of nothing and to and fro to greatness and from thence down to little more than to that wherein she found him a bare Gentleman not that he was less for he was well descended and of good alliance but poor in his beginnings and for the jest of Edw. Earl of Oxon. the Jack and an upstart Kt. all then knew it savoured more of emulation and his humour than of truth France was the first School wherein he learn'd the rudiments of War and the Low Countries and Ireland the military Academies of those times made him Master of that discipline for in both places he expos'd himself afterwards to Land-service but that in Ireland was a Militia which then did not yeild him food and raiment nor had he patience to stay there tho shortly after in 1580. he went thither again and was a Captain there under Arthur Lord Grey who succeded Sir Will. Pelham in the Deputy-ship of that Kingdom Afterwards gaining great credit he was received into the Court became a person in favour and had several boons bestow'd on him afterwards particularly the Castle of Shireborne in Dorsetshire taken from the See of Salisbury In the latter end of 1584. he discovered a new Country which he in honour of the Queen called Virginia received the honour of Knighthood from her and was afterwards made Captain of her Majesties Guards Senceschal of the Duchies of Cornwall and Exeter Lord Warden of the Stanneries of Devon and Cornwall Lord Leivtenant of Cornwall and Governour of Jersey In 1588. he shew'd himself active against the invincible Armada of the Spaniards and in 1592. being about that time a Parliament man wherein as in other Parliaments in the latter end of Q. Eliz. was he a frequent Speaker he went to America with 15. men of War to possess himself of Panama where the Spaniards Ship their riches or to intercept them in their passage homewards but returned successless and was out of favour for a time not only for that but for divirginating a maid of Honour Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Nich. Trockmorton whom he afterwards married and for some few months being kept under custody was at length set free but banished the Court. Afterwards to follow the directions of of his own Genie that was always inclined to search out hidden regions and the secrets of nature he undertook a navigation to Guiana that bears Gold in 1595. purposely for the improvement and honour of his Country both by getting store of wealth and by molesting the Spaniard within the inward coasts of America which he thought would be more profitable than on the Sea coasts where there are never any Towns laden with any riches but when they are conveyed thither to be carried over into Spain He set out from Plymouth on the 6. of Febr. and arrived at the Island Trinidada 22. March There he easily took a little City called S. Joseph and the Governour thereof Don Antonio de Bereo but sound not so much as a piece of Silver there Having enquired many things of this Antonio about the mines of Gold in Guiana he left his Ship in Trinidada and entred the vast River Orenoque with little Barks and some hundred Souldiers He searched up and down Guiana for the space of 4 Miles among the crooked and short turnings of the water several ways where being parched with the reflecting beams of the Sun just over his head and too much wet sometimes with Showers and having long wrestled with such like difficulties he yet continued so long till that it growing wintry cold in Apr. the waters all over-spread the earth insomuch that now he could pass away in no less danger of the waters than he came thither in danger of his enemies After his return he was constituted one of the chief persons in the expedition to Cadiz where he performed notable service and obtained to himself at home a great name In 1603 he presented to K. James at his entrance to the Crown of England a Manuscript of his own writing containing valid arguments against a peace to be made with Spain which was then the common discourse But the King being altogether for peace 't was rejected and the same year just after he had been deprived of the Captainship of the Guard which K. James bestowed on Sir Tho. Erskin Viscount Fenton in Scotland we find him in a plot against the King generally called Sir Walter Raleighs Treason for which being brought to his Tryal with others at Winchester in 1603. was at length found guilty and condemn'd to die But being repreived he was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London for life where he improved his confinement to the greatest advantage of learning and inquisitive men In Apr. 1614 he published the History of the World a book which for the exactness of its Chronology curiosity of its contexture and learning of all sorts seems to be the work of an Age. In 1617. power was granted to him to set forth Ships and men for the undertaking an enterpize of a golden Mine in Guiana in the southern parts of America and on the 28. March in the year following he left London in order for that Voyage notwithstanding Didacus Sarmiento de Acunna Earl or Count of Gundamore the Spanish Embassador to the K. of England endeavoured to hinder him with many arguments proposed to his Majesty But at length Sir Walter going beyond his Commission in taking and sacking the Town of St. Thome belonging to the Spaniard which was much aggravated by Gundamore the K. on the 9. June 1618 published his Royal Proclamation for the discovery of the truth of Raleigh's proceedings and for the advancement of justice Whereupon when Raleigh arrived at Plymouth Sir Lewis Steukeley Vice-Admiral of the County of Devon seized him and brought him up to London 9. Aug. following But Raleigh finding the Court wholly guided by Gundamore as 't is said notwithstanding I find elsewhere that he left England 16 July going before he could hope for little mercy Whereupon wisely contriving the design of an escape was betrayed by Steukley taken on the Thames and committed to a close Prison Afterwards being often examined by the Lord Chancellour and Privy-Councel was at length on the 24 Oct. warned by them as they had been commanded by the King to prepare for death The particulars of which proceedings as also of his Voyage to Guiana you may see at large in a book intit A Declaration of the demeanour and carrige of Sir W. Raleigh Knight as well in his Voyage as in and sithence his return and of the true
he married was a Parliament man in the latter end of Qu. Eliz. and in 1603. received the honour of Knighthood from K. Jam. 1. at Theobalds being then a person of repute in his own country At length being full weary of the vanities and fooleries of this world did retire to Doway in Flanders and there was by letters of confraternity dated in the beginning of Feb. 1617 received among the Brethren in the coll of English Benedictines who appointing him a little cell within the ambits of their house spent the remainder of his days therein in strict devotion and religious exercise After his settlement there he wrote Letters perswasive to his wife and children in England to take upon them the catholick religion Arguments to shew that the Rom. Church is a true Church written against Dr. R. Field his Four books of the Church Reply to the answer of his Daughter M. C. Mary Croft which she made to a Paper of his sent to her concerning the Rom. Church At the end of it is a little thing entit The four ministers of Charinton gag'd by four propositions made to the Lord Baron of Espicelliere of the religion prtended And presented on S. Martins day to du Moulin in his house and since to Durand and Mestrezat All these were published by Sir Herb. Croft at Doway about 1619. in tw containing 255. pages There were but eight copies printed viz. one for himself now in the libr. of the English Benedictines at that place formerly sent to me by a Brother of that order purposely to be perused for a time and then to be returned who for religion sake and in contempt of the world hath denied the inheritance of an Estate of at least three thousand pounds per. an Another copy was printed for Sir Herberts wife and the rest for his children but all without a title only dedicated to his wife and children with a short Epistle before them beginning thus I would have you know that although this ensuing discourse cometh to you in print c. The beginning of the book it self is this When it had pleased almighty God in his great mercy even after above 53. years of my mispent life c. At length after he had macerated his body with fasting hardship and devotion surrendred up his pious Soul to the Almighty on the 10 Apr. according to the accompt there followed in sixteen hundred twenty and two and was buried in the Chappel or Church belonging to the said English Benedictines at Doway Soon after was a monument put over his grave with an inscription thereon a copy of it you may elsewhere see in which he is stiled vir prudens fortis nobilis patriae libertatis amantissimus c. He left behind him a Son of both his names sometimes a R. Catholick but afterwards a zealous Protestant and a Bishop of whom I shall hereafter make mention in his due place JOHN RANDALL sometimes a frequent and painful preacher in the City of London was born at Missenden in Bucks sent by his relations to S. Maries hall in 1581. being then very young where spending some time in Trivial learning was afterwards translated to Trinity coll and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts which he compleated by determination In 1587. July 6. he was elected Fellow of Lincoln coll and two years after proceeded in his faculty About that time entring into the sacred function he became one of the most noted preachers in the University In 1598 he was admitted Bach. of Divinity and the year after resigning his fellowship was made about that time Rector of the Church of S. Andrews Hubart in Little Eastcheap in London where after some time he became so great a labourer in Gods vineyard by his frequent and constant work in the ministry as well in resolving of doubts and cases of conscience as in preaching and lecturing that he went beyond his brethren in that City to the wonder of all But greater was the wonder especially to those of his parish and neighbourhood that this poor man who was for the most part strangely afflicted with sickness should undergo his duty so strictly and preach so many Sermons as he did for comfort and support in troubles This indeed did sound highly to his merit and plainly shewed that his great learning and parts could not be subdued with the pitiful afflictions here below He was accounted a judicious orthodox and holy man and by some a zealous and innocent puritan of a harmless life and conversation and one that was solely fram'd to do good acts His works are these Several Sermons as 1 The necessity of righteousness on Mat. 5. 20. Lond. 1622. and 1640. qu. 2 Description of fleshly lusts on 1 Pet. 2. 11 12. Lond. 1622. and 40. qu. 3 S. Pauls triumph c. eleven Sermons on Rom. 8. 38. 39. Lond. 1633. c. qu. published by Will. Holbrook preacher The great mystery of godliness or a treatise opening unto us what God is and Christ is Lond. 1624. qu. there again 1640. third edit Treatise concerning the Sacraments Lond. 1630. qu. c. Catechistical Lectures in number 23. upon the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1630. qu. c. Nine and twenty lectures of the Church for support of the same in these times c. Ibid. 1631. c. qu. besides other things fit for the press as one shewing what a true visible Church is and another what Predestination is He concluded his last day in the beginning of June in sixteen hundred twenty and two being then about 54. years of age year 1612 and was buried in the Church of S. Andrew before mentioned By his last will and testament he bequeathed a tenement to Linc. coll called Ship hall situated on the west side of that Street antiently called Schediardstreet now commonly called S. Mary hall lane in Oxon. The picture of this Mr. Randall drawn to the life when he was fellow of Linc. coll is or at least was lately hanging in the Common room of that house JOHN OWEN or Audoenus as some call him the most noted Epigrammatist in the age he lived was born at Armon in Caernarvonshire educated in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll after he had served two years of Probation there in 1584. took the degree of Bach. of Civil Law in 1590. and leaving his fellowship the year after taught School as some of his antient country men that remember him have told me at Trylegh near to Monmouth and at Warwick as the tradition goes there among the Schoolmasters in the School founded by K. Hen. 8. in the place of one Tho. Hall about the year 1594. He was a person endowed with several gifts especially with with the faculty of Poetry which hath made him famous for those books of Epigrams that he hath published wherein an ingenious liberty of joking being by him used was and is now with some especially forreigners
stone neither marble nor free with this engraven on a brass plate fastned thereunto Here lyeth Author Lake Doctor in Divinity late Bishop of Bathe and Wells who died on the fourth day of May an 1626. His brother Sir Thomas before mentioned who was of Channous near Edgworth in Middlesex died at Chanous 17. Sept. 1630. and was buried on the 19. of the same month JOHN DAVIES the third person of both his names that I have hitherto mention'd among these writers was born at Chisgrove in the parish of Tysbury in Wiltshire being the Son of wealthy Tanner of that place became a Commoner of Queens coll about the beginning of Mich. Term in the fifteenth year of his age an 1585. wherein having laid a considerable foundation of Academical literature partly by his own natural parts which were excellent and partly by the help of a good Tutor he was removed having taken a degree in Arts as it seems to the Middle Temple wherein applying himself to the study of the Common Law tho he had no great genie to it was in fine made a Barrester But so it was that he being a high spirited young man did upon some little provocation or punctilio bastinado Rich. Martin afterwards Recorder of London in the common Hall of the Middle Temple while he was at Dinner For which act being forthwith expell'd he retired for a time in private lived in Oxon in the condition of a Sojourner and follow'd his studies tho he wore a cloak However among his serious thoughts making reflections upon his own condition which sometimes was an affliction to him he composed that excellent Philosophical and Divine Poem called Nosce teipsum Afterwards by the favour of Thomas Lord Ellesmore Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England he was again restored to his Chamber was afterwards a Concellour and a Burgess for that Parliament which was held at Westminster in 1601. Upon the death of Q. Elizabeth he with the Lord Hunsdon went into Scotland to congratulate K. James as her Lawful Successor and being introduced into his presence the King enquired the names of those Gentlemen who were in the company of the said Lord and naming Joh. Davies among who stood behind them the King straightway asked whether he was Nosce Teipsum and being answered that he was the same he graciously embraced him and thenceforth had so great favour for that soon after he made him his Attorney-general in Ireland While he held that place he was made Serjeant at Law having never been Reader an 1606. the Poesie of whose Rings that were then given being Lex publica lux est Notwithstanding the said degree he returned into Ireland by his Majesty's leave and dispensation kept his office of Attorney and received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Whitehall 11. Feb. 1607. Afterwards he came into England for altogether was made one of his Maj. Serjeants at Law here in 1612. and sundry times appointed one of the Justices of the Assize in divers Circuits At length being constituted Lord Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench had his robes made in order to be setled in that high office as his Daughter hath several times reported but died suddenly before the ceremony of settlement or installation could be performed He was held in great esteem by the noted Scholars of his time among whom were Will. Camden Sir Jo. Harrington the Poet Ben. Johnson Jo. Selden Facete Hoskyns R. Corbet of Ch. Ch. and others who esteemed him to be a person of a bold Spirit of a sharp and ready wit and compleatly learned but in truth more a Scholar than a Lawyer His works are Nosce Teipsum This Oracle expounded in two Elegies 1. Of Humane Nature 2. Of the Soul of Man Lond. 1599. qu. dedicated to Q. Elizabeth There again 1622. in oct Hymus of Astrea in Acrostick verse Printed with the former Orchestra Or a Poem expressing the antiquity and excellency of dancing in a dialogue between Penelope and one of her Woers containing 131 Stanzaes unfinished This being also printed with Nosce Teipsum they were all three especially the first much extoll'd by Scholars of all sorts Among them I find one who hath dealt poetically with him by an ingenious copy of verses which begins thus Si tua legisset redivivus c. If Plato liv'd and saw these Heaven bred lines Where thou the Essence of the Soul confines Or merry Martial c. Sir Jo. Harrington also before-mentioned would not let his memory escape his Pen without an Epigram especially for his Orchestra besides other Poets of those times which for brevity-sake I shall now pass by Discover of the true causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued nor brought under obedience of the Crown of England until the beginning of his Maj. happy Reign Lond. 1612. qu. Dedic to the King with this Latin verse only Principis est virtus maxima nosse suos Declaration of our Sovereign Lord the King c. concerning the title of his Maj. Son Charles the Prince and Duke of Cornwal c. Lond. 1614. in 14 sh in fol. Printed in columns one in French and the other in English Le primer Reports des cases matters on ley resolves c. adjudges in les Courts del Roy en Ireland Dubl 1615. Lond. 1628. fol. In the sec edit was added a Table which was not in the former From this book it was that Sir Joh. Pettus Knight did chiefly select matter for another intit Englands independency upon the Papal Power historically and judiciously stated by Sir Jo Davies Attorn Gen. in Ireland and by Sir Edw. Coke L. Ch. Just of England in two reports selected from their great volumes with a Pref. written by Sir Joh. Pettus Lond. 1674. qu. Perfect abridgment of the eleven books of Reports of Sir Edw. Coke Lond. 1651. in tw written in French by Sir Joh. Davies translated into English by another hand Jus imponendi vectigalia Or the learning touching Customs Tonnage Poundage and Impositions on Merchandizes c. asserted c. Lond. 1656. 59. c. oct I find one Sir J. D. Knight to have published Reasons Academy Or a new post with Sovereign Salve to cure the worlds madness expressing himself in several essays and witty discourses Lond. 1620. oct Written in prose and at the end of it is Reasons moan written in verse in eleven Stanzaes Whether the said Sir J. D. be the same with Sir Joh. Davies I cannot justly tell Besides the before-mentioned things as also Epigrams as 't is said which were published by and under the name of Sir Joh. Davies are several MSS. of his writing and composing which go from hand to hand as 1 Metaphrase of several of K. Davids Psalms 2 A large Epistle to Rob. E. of Salisbury of the state of the Counties of Monaghan Fennanagh and Downe and of Justices of the Peace and other Officers of Ireland written 1607. 3 Speech when he was Speaker of the H.
an 1584. was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where remaining some months was at length released set on Shipboard with Dr. Jasp Heywood Edw. Rishton Joh. Colleton and others and waâ—ted over the Seas to the coast of Normandy where they were left to shift for themselves In 1587. he being about to return into England he was sent by Cardinal Alan to Sir will Stanley a Colonel to whose Regiment in the Low Countries he was by him made Chaplain In 1588. he was promoted to the degree of D. of D. in the University of Trier in Germany and in 89. he was sent for to Doway by the Jesuits whom he was always affraid to offend to assist Dr. Rich. Barret President of the English college in the Government of that place In 91. he was sent to Bruxells and remitted to the Camp to exercise the office of Chaplain again where with other Exiles they acted many things which tended much to the destruction of the Q. of England and not long after returned to Doway again and by the command of Cardinal Cajetan Protector of the English Nation he was made President of the English coll there ann 1599. At length being grown old and unfit to govern returned into England lived sometimes in London and sometimes in Staffordshire But that which is to be farther noted of him is that having for the most part of his life lived in the habit of a Secular Priest did about six months before his death take upon him the order and habit belonging to the Society of Jesus His works are Annotations on the Old Testament Duac 1609. in two Tomes in qu. Catalogus Martyrum pro Religione Catholicâ in Angliâ â—â—â—isorum ab an 1570. ad an 1612. Printed 1612. and 14. in oct Before which book is Narratio de origine Seminariorum de Missione Sacerdoâ—um in Anglia This Catalogue and Narration taken mostly from a collection intit Concertatio Eccl. Catholicae in Anglia c. could not be sold more than for six pence when it was published for it contains but 4 sheets in oct yet in 1682. when the choice Library of Mr. Rich. Smith mentioned before in Sir Joh. Davies was sold by way of Auction Dr. Tho. Marshall Dean of Gloucester and Rector of Linc. coll gave eleven shillings and six pence being then great bidding for before he could get it The Anchor of Christian Doctrine wherein the most principal points of Christian Religion are proved by the only written word of God c. Doway 1622. in two thick quarto's containing four parts viz. the first vol. one the other three These two quarto's were as one saith printed at London and sold by the author in his lodgings in Turnbull-street for 14 shillings which might have been afforded for five The Mysteries of the Rosary This I have not yet seen He also corrected and translated the Doway Bibles and translated into Lat. and published Anti-Haeretica motiva c. written by Rich. Bristow Attrebat 1608. in two Tomes in qu. before which he hath put a lame account of the author This person Tho. Worthington who was esteemed very learned among those of his perswasion and had hazarded his life and done great service for the Cause did quietly lay down his head and submit himself to the stroke of death in the house of one Bidulph Esq of Bidulph commonly called Biddles in Staffordshire near to Congleton in Cheshire year 1626 about sixteen hundred twenty and six and was buried in the Parochial Church there as I have been informed by one of his Society who was well acquainted with him having some years before his death been made titular Archdeacon of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire ALEXANDER SPICER a Minister's Son and a Somersetshire man born became a Batler of Exeter coll in 1590. aged about 15. took one degree in Arts was made Fellow of that house and proceeded in his Faculty At length entring into the Sacred Function was a Preacher for some years in these parts Afterwards upon an invitation he went into Ireland where by the savour of Sir Arthur Chichester Baron of Belfast and L. Dep. of that Country he became well beneficed and dignified and in great estimation for his learning He hath published Davids Petition on Psal 19. 13. Lond. 1616. oct The Pope at Babylon Serm. on the 5. of Nov. at Colerain in the North of Ireland on Dan. 3. 6. Lond. 1617. Elegies on the death of Arthur Lord Chichester c. Printed 1625. which Lord dying much about the time that K. Jam. 1. of England died was buried at 〈◊〉 in Ireland to the great grief of his Country because it was in such a time that it most required his assistance courage and wisdom which are often at odds and seldom meet yet in him shook hands as friends and challenged an equal share in his perfections Other things were written and published by the said A. Spicer as some of the 〈◊〉 of his coll have informed me but such I have not yet sâ—en nor do I know any thing besides of the 〈…〉 he left behind him the 〈…〉 lid Divine WILLIAM PELHAM the eldest Son of Sir Will. Pelham of Brocklesby in Lincolnshire Master of the Ordnance by Elianor his Wife Daughter of 〈…〉 of 〈◊〉 was born in London near or 〈…〉 became Fellow-Commoner of New coll in the beginning of 1582. aged 14. continued a sedulous Student there for at least two years in a Chamber within one of the turrets of the College wall that encompasses the Garden Afterwards he travelled and improved his learning in the Universities of Strasburg Heidelburg Wittenburg and Lipswick in Germany as also in Paris and Geneva and returning to his native Country setled again for a time in this University till Mars distracted him from the studies of Minerva as he himself used to say But when that Planet was set he retired to a Country lise at Brocklesby where after he had received satiety of all worldly blessings did in his old age incline his heart to more supernatural contemplations Which being by him committed to writing for the benefit of his Children of which he had plenty were published under this title Meditations upon the Gospel of S. John Lond. 1625. in tw and other things as his Son Dr. Herbert Pelham sometimes Fellow of Magd. coll hath told me but whether printed I know not This Sir Will. Pelham who was Knighted by K. Jam. 1. at Newmarket 20. Nov. 1616. lived after the publication of that book two three or more years but when he died I cannot yet find Among the Sons that he left behind him was Hen. Pelham one sometimes a Student in this University afterwards in one of the Inns of Court and a Barrester At length being chosen a Burgess for Grantham in Lincolnshire to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nov. 1640. sided with the Presbyterians and was by that party elected Speaker of the House of Commons when the
am that after he had continued many years there and had taken the degrees in Divinity he was promoted to the See of Landaff upon the translation of Dr. Godwin to Hereford in the year 1618. and the same year was one of the learned English Divines that were by his Majesties command sent to the Synod of Dort where he behaved himself so admirable well to the credit of our Nation as some Ch. Historians will tell you that after his return he was upon the translation of Dr. Harnet to Norwich elected to the See of Chichester confirmed by his Maj. 20. Sept. 1619. He was a person of a solid judgment and of various reading a bitter Enemy to the Papists and a severe Calvinist which may farther appear in some of these books following of his composition Heroici Characteres ad illustriss equitem Henricum Nevillum Oxon. 1603. qu. Several of his Latin verses are in the University book of verses made on the death of Sir Phil. Sydney in Bodleiomnema and in other books Tithes examined and proved to be due to the Clergy by a divine right Lond. 1606. 1611. qu. Jurisdiction Regal Episcopal Papal Wherein is declared how the Pope hath intruded upon the jurisdiction of Temporal Princes and of the Church c. Lond. 1610. qu. Consensus Eccles Catholicae contra Tridentinos de scripturis Ecclesia fide gratia c. Lond. 1613. oct Dedicated to the Mertonians A thankful remembrance of Gods mercy in an historical collection of the great and merciful deliverances of the Church and State of England from the beginning of Q. Elizabeth Lond. 1624. qu. The fourth edit came out in 1630. qu. adorned with cuts Short directions to know the true Church Lond. 1615. c. in tw Dedicated to Prince Charles as the former book was Oration made at the Hague before the Prince of Orange and the Assembly of the High and Mighty Lords the States General Lond. 1619. in one sh and an half in qu. The madness of Astrologers or an examination of Sir Christop Heydons book intit A defence of judiciary Astrology Lond. 1624. qu. Which being written twenty years before that time was then published by Tho. Vicars Bach. of Div. who had married the authors Daughter It was reprinted at Lond. in 1651. Examination of those things wherein the author of the late Appeale holdeth the doctrine of the Pelagians and Arminians to be the doctrines of the Church of England Lond. 1626. and 36. in qu. Besides this answer or examination made to the Appeale of Rich. Mountague who succeeded Carleton in the See of Chichester came out six more viz. one by Dr. Matthew Sutcliff Dean of Exeter a second by Dr. Dan. Featly a third by Franc. Rouse sometimes of Broadgates hall in Oxon a fourth by Anth. Wotton of Cambridge a fifth by Joh. Yeates Bach. of Div. sometimes of Eman. coll in Cambridge afterwards Minister of S. Andrews in Norwich and the sixth by Hen. Burton of Friday-street in London A joynt attestation avowing that the discipline of th Church of England was not impeached by the Synod of Dort Lond. 1626. qu. Vita Bernardi Gilpini vere sanctiss famaque apud Anglos aquilonares celeberrimi Lond. 1628. qu. Published in Engl. at Lond. 1636. oct and also in Lat. in Dr. Will. Bates his collection of lives Lond. 1681. in a large qu. Testimony concerning the Presbyterian discipline in the Low Countries and Episcopal government in England Printed several times in qu. and oct The edit in qu. at Lond. 1642. is but one sheet Latin Letter to the learned Camden containing some notes and observations on his Britannia MS. among those given by Seldens Executors to the Publ. Libr. at Oxon. The beginning of which Letter is Dum nuper Mi Camdene Brittaniam tuam c. Several Sermons viz. one that is joyned to the English life of Bern. Gilpin Another on Luke 2. from ver 41. to 50. in tw A third on Rev. 20. 3. 4. in oct c. He had also a hand in the Dutch Annotations and in the New Translation of the Bible which were ordered by the Synod of Dort to be undertaken yet were not compleated and published till 1637. At length having lived to a good old age he concluded his last day in the month of May in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and was buried in the Choire near to the Altar of his Cath. Church at Chichester on the 27. of the same month By his first Wife named Anne Daughter of Sir Hen. Killegrew Knight and Widdow of Sir Hen. Nevill of Billingbere in Berks he had Issue a Son named Henry Carleton living sometimes in the Parish of Furâ—e in Sussex elected Burgess for Arundel to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 13. Apr. 1640. and from the unhappy Parliament which began on the 3. Nov. following he received a Commission from the Members thereof to be a Captain in which office and command he shew'd himself an Enemy to the Bishops JOHN DODERIDGE or Doddridg was born at or near to Barnstaple in Devonshire became a Sojournour of Exeter coll in 1572. took one degree in Arts about 4 years after and compleated it by Determination About that time being entred into the Middle Temple he made great proficiency in the Common Law became a noted Counsellour and in 45. Eliz. Lent Reader of that Inn. In 1603. Jan. 20. he was made Serjeant at Law being about that time Prince Henry's Serjeant but in the year following he was discharged of his Serjeantship and became Solliciter Gen. to King James 1. In 1607. Jun. 25. he was constituted one of the Kings Serjeants and on the 5. July following he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj. at Whitehal In 1612. Nov. 25. he was appointed one of the Justices of the Common Pleas afterwards of the Kings Bench and in Feb. 1613. he was actually created Master of Arts in Serjeants Inn by the Vicechanc both the Proctors and five other Academians Which degree was conferred upon him in gratitude for his great service he had then lately done for the University in several Law suits depending between the said University and City of Oxon. While he continued in Exeter coll he was a severe Student and by the help of a good Tutor he became a noted Disputant So that by the foundation of learning which he had laid in that coll forwarded by good natural parts and continual industry he became not only eminent in his own profession but in the Arts Divinity and Civil Law insomuch that it was difficult with some to judge in which of all those Faculties he excelled But being mostly taken up with the Common Law he could not be at leisure to honour the World with his great knowledge only with these things following The Lawyers light or due direction for the study of the Law c. Lond. 1629. qu. A compleat Parson or a description of Advowsons and Church-livings c. Lond. 1630. qu. Delivered in several
had in favour by all such that were lovers of Arts and Sciences At length obtaining an honourable Office under the Queen he became one of her favourites which he held for no short term but had the longest lease of any and the smoothest time without rub In the beginning of 1588. he among other persons of honour and quality was actually created Master of Arts which I think was the highest degree that was conferred upon him in this University In 1603. he was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Jam. 1. and soon after obtained the grant of the ruinous Castle of Wâ—rwick In the 12. year of the said Kings reign he being constituted under Treasurer and Chancellour of the Exchequer he was made choice of for one of Kings Privy Council And meriting much for his faithful services in those employments was by Letters Patents bearing date 9. Jan. 18. Jac. 1. advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Brook of Beauchamps court In Sept. 1621. he was made one of the Gentlemen of the Kings Bedchamber whereupon giving up his Chancellourship of the Exchequer Rich. Weston afterwards Earl of Portland succeeded him He was always esteemed a brave Gentleman and honourably descended as being sprung from the family of Willoughby Lord Brook was favoured by Qu. Elizabeth and such that knew he had interest in the Muses His life was always single and tho he lived and died a constant Courtier of the Ladies yet he prosecuted his studies in History and Poetry In which consider him as a Gentleman of noble birth and great Estate he was most excellent in his time as these things following shew composed in his youth and familiar exercise with Sir Ph. Sidney Poems A Treatise of humane learning Inquisition upon fame and honour Treatise of Wars Tragedy of Alaham. Trag. of Mustapha Caelica containing 109 Sonnets Letter to an honourable Lady Letter of Travels Written to his Cousin GrevilVerney residing in France c. Some of the said things having been singly published were all remitted into a little thin Folio printed at Lond. 1633. and had this general title put to them Certain learned and elegant works of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke c. The first five years of King James or the condition of the State of England and the relation it had to other Provinces Lond. 1643. qu. The life of the renowned Sir Philip Sidney with the true interest of England as it then stood in relation to all foreign Princes c. Lond. 1652. oct Published by P. B. Short account of the Maxims and Policies used by Qu. Elizab. in her Government Printed with the former book Remains containing Poems of Monarchy and Religion Lond. 1670. oct never before printed with other things among which is his Trag. of Marc. Tull. Cicero which I have not yet seen At length our author who was Counsellour of State to Ch. 1. neglecting to reward one Haywood who had spent the greatest and chiefest part of his time in his personal service for which he expostulated the matter with his Master but was sharply rebuked for it the said Haywood thereupon gave him a mortal stab on his Back they two being then only together in his Bed-chamber in Brook house in Holbourne near London of which wound he died 30. Sept. in sixteen hundred twenty and eight aged 74. year 1628 Which being done the Assassianate discerning his own condition desperate went into another room and there having lock'd the dore murdered himself with his own Sword On the 27 of Oct. following he the said Lord Brook was buried in a Vault situate on the north side of the collegiat Church at Warwick which formerly had been a chapter house belonging thereunto wherein he had in his life time erected a fair Tomb with this Epitaph thereon Fulke Grevil Servant to Queen Elizabeth Counsellour to King James and friend to Sir Philip Sidney In his honour and dignity succeeded his kinsman Robert Grevil being then 1628. one and twenty years of age educated in Academical learning not in this but in the other University of Cambridge as I have been informed where being well tutor'd became learned considering his quality But being afterwards unhappily attainted with fanatick and antimonarchical principles by the influence of one of his near relations and some Schismatical preachers tho in his own nature a very civil and well humour'd person was without much difficulty drawn in by those fiery spirits of the Long Parliament which began 1640. By whom being back'd on he became an active man in the House against the Prerogative Bishops and the establish'd discipline of the Church insomuch that no less than the abolishing of all decent order in the service of God would satisfie him So that the members of the said Parliament looking upon him as a faithful person for the cause that they then drove on appointed him a Commander in their Army as I shall anon tell you As for the things which he wrote and published are 1 The nature of truth c. Lond. 1643. oct Animadverted upon by John Wallis a Minister in London afterward Geom. Professor of Oxon Printed at Lond. 1643. 2 A discourse opening the nature of Episcopacy which is exercised in England Lond. 1641. 42. qu. Assisted therein by some puritanical Minister and printed when the Press was open to receive all books against the Prerogative and Bishops 3 Two speeches spoken in the Guild-hall in London concerning his Majesties resusal of a Treaty of peace Lond. 1642. qu. 4 Answer to the speech of Philip Earl of Pembroke concerning accommodation Which answer was spoken in the House of Lords 19 Dec. 1642. Pr. in one sh in qu. by order of the House 5 Speech at the election of his Captains and Commanders at Warwick Castle Lond. 1643. qu. In the beginning of the Civil War an 1642. he became Commander in chief of those Forces which were sent to assault the Church-Close at Lichfield then defended by a small Garrison placed there by his Majesty out of a pious intent for the preservation of the stately Cathedral which the Lord Brooke intended presently to destroy when taken by his Forces But so it fell out that he having planted his great Guns against the South-east gate of the Close he was tho harnessed with plate-armour cap-a-pe shot from the Church in the Eye by one Diot a Clergy-mans Son who could neither hear or speak as he stood in a dore whether he came to see the occasion of a sudden shout made by the Soldiers of which he instantly died This memorable accident hapned on the second day of March an 1642. which is the festival of that sometimes famous Bishop S. Cedd or Chad to whose memory Offa King of the Mercians did erect the said Cathedral and devoutly dedicate it Archbishop Laud being then a prisoner in the Tower of London did make this memoire of it in his Diary under the year 1642.
Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon was born in Devon but originally descended from the Carews of Carew Castle in Pembrokshire became a Gent. Commoner of Broadgates hall in 1572. aged 15. About which time two of his Sirname studied in Vniversity coll which hath given occasion many years after to some of the Fellows of that house particularly to Dr. Joh. Browne to take one of them to be this George Carew whom we are farther to mention Howsoever it is or whether he studied in both houses successively I shall not now dispute it Sure I am that he was of Broadgates and that being more delighted in Martial Affairs than in the solitary delights of a study he left the University without a degree went into Ireland and there had a command given him against that noted Rebel the Earl of Desmond Afterwards his merits being made known to Q. Eliz. she thereupon made him one of her Council and Master of the Ordnance there In which last employment he behav'd himself with great renown in various expeditions as some years after he did in the Voyage to Cadiz in Spain In 1589. he was actually created M. of A. with other persons of quality he being then a Knight At length when all Ireland was in a manner invaded with a domestick Rebellion and a Spanish Army he was made President of Munster for 3 years where joyning his Forces with those of the Earl of Thomond he took divers Castles and strong Holds in those parts and brought the titular Earl of Desmond one of the most active Rebels there to his tryal After K. James came to the Crown he was called home and in the first year of his Raign he was constituted Governour of the Isle of Guernsey and Castle Cornet In the third year of that Kings Reign he was advanced to the degree and dignity of a Baron by the title of the Lord Carew of Clopton having before married Joyce the Daughter and Coheir of Will. Clepton of Clopton near Stratford upon Avon in Warwicksh Esque Afterwards he was made Vicechamberlain and Treasurer to Q. Anne Master of the Ordnance throughout England and of the Privy Council to the King At length when Charles came to the Crown he was made by him in the first year of his Reign Earl of Totness in Devonshire as being then a faithful Subject a valiant and prudent Commander an honest Counsellour a gentile Scholar a lover of Antiquities and a great Patron of learning He wrote a book intit Pacata Hibernia Or the History of the late Wars in Ireland Lond. 1633. fol. with his picture before and these verses under it Talis crat vultu sed linguâ mente manuque Qualis crat qui vult dicere scripta legat Consulat aut famam qui linguâ mente manuve Vincere hunc fama judice rarus erat Of which History containing three years transactions in Munster the said Earls actions G. Carew are not the least part It was while he lived reserved first for his own private satisfaction secondly preserved for the furtherance of a general history of the Kingdom of Ireland when some industrious writer should undertake a compleat description of those Affairs And lastly out of his own retired modesty it was by him held back from the stage of publication lest himself being a principal Actor in many of the particulars might be perhaps thought to give vent and utterance to his private merit and services however justly memorable After his death it came into the hands of his faithful and trusty Servant or rather his natural Son called Tho. Stafford by whom it being first offer'd to the view and censure of divers learned and judicious persons was at length published This is that Thom Stafford who was Master of many choice Originals of Charters of English Nobility written in the time of Hen. 2. mostly containing conveyances and gifts of Lands to Religious Houses which I presume he had by the gift of his aforesaid Master the Earl of Totness But when Stafford died they came into the hands of Sir Simonds D'ewes Bt. Besides Pacata Hibernia our author Carew hath in four large volumes collected several Chronologies Charters Letters Muniments and other materials belonging to Ireland Which as choice rarities are at this day reserved in the Bodleian Library He also made several collections notes and extracts for the writing of the History of the Reign of K. Hen. 5. which were remitted into the History of Great Britain c. published by Joh. Speed In which History were also remitted most if not all of the Lord Viscount S. Albans Hist of Hen. 7. the notes and collections of Sir Rob. Cotton concerning the Reign of K. Hen. 8. notes and collections of Sir Hen. Spelman for another King the life of K. John by Dr. Jo. Barcham and the notes of Edm. Bolton concerning K. Hen. 2. As for Speeds part in the said History of Gr. Britain it is such for stile and industry that for one who as Martial speaks had neither a Graecum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nor an Ave Latinum is perhaps without many Fellows in Europe So much also have I understood of him by sure information that he had no meaning in that labour to prevent great practick learnedness but to furnish it for the common service of Englands Glory As for our author Carew Earl of Totness he ended his days in the Savoy situated in the Strand near London year 1629 27. Mar. in sixteen hundred twenty and nine aged 73. and 10 months Whereupon his body was conveyed to Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire and was inter'd at the upper end of an Isle joyning on the North side to the body of the Church there Over his grave was soon after a stately monument erected with a large inscription thereon which for brevity sake I now pass by and desire the Reader to observe that there was one Tho. Carve who writes himself of Mobernan in the County of Tipperary in Ireland a Priest and Apostolick Notary who in the year of his age 70. Dom. 1660. wrote a book intit Lyra sive Anacephalaeosis Hibernica in qua de exordio sive origine nomine moribus ritibusque gentis Hibernicae succinctè tractatur Sulsbaci 1666. 2d edit qu. But this Tho. Carve who lived at Vienna in Germany in the Court of the reverend Curats and Levites belonging to the Cath. Church of St. Stephen there to the year 1664. and after is not to be understood as some have done to be the same with Tho. Carue or any thing of kin to Geor. Carew before mention'd or that he was beholding to Pacata Hibernia when he composed his book or to his MS. collections as I can yet perceive Besides the aforesaid George Carew was another of both his names a native of Cornwall who having benefited himself much in this University and afterwards in the Inns of Court and in travelling beyond the Seas was at his return called to the Barr. Soon
his Father-in Law Will. Purefey Esque as also of Vindiciae Sabbathi c. Lond. 1641. qu. as I shall tell you farther in Tho. Broad under the year 1635. And of Brief notes upon the whole book of Psalms c. Lond. in qu. besides other things But whether this George Abbot was ever of Oxford I cannot as yet tell A third George Abbot I find to have been elected Probationer Fellow of Merton coll 1622. and admitted Bach. of the Civil Law in 1630. but he hath written nothing and nothing else do I know of him only that he was Son of Sir Maurice Abbot sometimes Lord Mayor of London brother to Dr. Geo. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury HENRY CARY Son of Sir Edw. Cary of Aldenham and Berchamsted in Hertfordshire Knight Master of the Jewel house to Q. Elizabeth and K. James by Katherine his Wife Daughter of Sir Hen. Knevet Knight was born in that County and at about 16 years of age was sent to obtain Academical learning in this University particularly as it seems to Exeter coll where by the help of a good Tutor and extraordinary parts be became a most accomplished Gentleman 'Ts said that during his stay in the Vniversity of Oxford his Chamber was the rendezvouz of all the eminent Wits Divines Philosophers Lawyers Historians and Politicians of that time but how true it is seeing Henry was then a young man and not graduated I cannot in the least perceive Had those things been spoken of Lucius Cary his Son who retired several times to and took commons in Exeter coll while his Brother Lorenzo studied therein 1628. and after I should have rather believed it But let the matter rest as 't is Sure I am that after Hen. Cary had left the University where he had obtained a celebrated name he was introduced into the Royal Court was made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Charles Prince of Wales Comptroller of his Majesties Houshold one of his Privy Council Lord Deputy of Ireland an 1622. and about the same time Viscount Falkland in Scotland being then in much esteem by that King for his great abilities and experience in state affairs He wrote several things but not printed and is supposed to be author of The History of the most unfortunate Prince K. Edw. 2. with choice political observations on him and his unhappy favourites Gaveston and Spencer containing several passages of those times not found in other Historians Lond. 1680. oct Which book being found among the Papers of the said Henry Visc Falkland was published therefore as his when the Press was open for all such books that could make any thing against the then Government with a Preface to the Reader patch'd up from very inconsiderable authors by Sir Ja. H. as is supposed The Reader is to know that in 1628. was published at Lond. in oct an historical Poem intit The deplorable life and death of Edward the Second K. of England together with the downfal c. written by one Rich. Hubert which Poem being printed without the knowledge of the author and so consequently full of faults and not according to his mind a true copy was printed at Lond. in the year following in oct bearing this title The History of Edw. 2. sirnamed Carnarvon one of our English Kings together with the fatal downfal of his two unfortunate Favourites Gaveston and Spencer Published by the authors own copy with the Addition of some other observations both of use and ornament written by his elder Brother Sir Franc. Hubert or Hobert Knight As for Henry Lord Falkland he gave way to fate occasioned by the breaking of his Leg on a stand in Theobald's Park in Sept. or Octob. in sixteen hundred thirty and three year 1633 but where he was buried I cannot tell He left behind him a Son named Lucius Cary begotten on the body of his Wife Elizabeth sole Daughter and Heir of Sir Laurence Tanfield L. Chief Baron of the Exchequer by whom he had the Mannor of Great Tew the Priory with the Rectory and Demesnes of Burford in Oxfordshire and other Lands Whether this Lucius was born at Burford as some think he was the publick Register of that place which commences about the beginning of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. takes no notice of it However that he was mostly nursed there by a wet and dry Nurse the Ancients of that Town who remember their names have some years since informed me So that the place of his Nativity being yet doubtful to me I must tell you that when his Father became Lord Deputy of Ireland he carried his Son Lucius then a wild Youth with him into that Country where he caused him to be educated in Academical learning in Trinity coll near to Dublin and afterwards sent him to travel under the tutelage and protection of a discreet person who making a very great reformation in him as to life manners and learning Lucius had ever after a great respect and veneration for him Upon his return he retired several times to Oxon to enlarge that learning which he had acquir'd as I shall anon tell you His first years of reason were spent in Poetry and polite learning into the first of which he made divers plausible sallies which caused him therefore to be admired by the Poets of those times particularly first by Ben. Johnson who hath an Epigram on him in his Vnderwood in the second vol. of his works 2. By Edm. Waller of Beconsfield who highly extols his worth and admirable parts and 3. By Sir John Suckling who afterwards brought him into his Poem called The Session of Poets thus He was of late so gone with Divinity That he had almost forgot his Poetry Though to say the truth and Apollo did know it He might have been both his Priest and his Poet. Much about the time of his Fathers death he became one of the Gent. of his Majesty's Privy Chamber had frequent retirements to Great Tew and sometimes to Oxon as he had done very frequently before his Marriage for the company of and conversation with learned and witty men Among whom were Will. Chillingworth of Trinity coll John Earle and Hugh Cressy of Merton coll George Aglionby of Ch. Ch. Charles Gataker of Pembroke coll Son of Thom. Gataker of Redriff or Ridrith near to London who I think was afterwards his Chaplain Thom. Triplet a very witty man of Ch. Ch. and others He had also intimate acquaintance with George Sandys the Poet who usually lived at Caswell near to Witney in the house of Sir Franc. Wâ—nman who married his Sister whose company was usually frequented when Lucius retired to his house at Burford In 1639. he was put in Commission for his Majesty in the expedition against the Scots and upon his safe return thence Abr. Cowley the Prince of Poets and a great admirer of him hath an excellent copy of verses wherein are several things honourably mentioned of him and his learning In the
of Sir Will. Finch of the Mote in St. Martins Parish in the County of Kent but the Widdow of one Morton of the same County Esq was born at Bocton hall in Kent 30. March 1568. educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester and thence in the beginning of 1584 he was transplanted to New coll where living in the condition of a Gent. Com. had his Chamber in Hart hall adjoyning and to his Chamber-Fellow there Rich. Baker his Countryman afterwards a Knight and a noted writer But continuing there not long he went to Queens coll where by the benefit of a good Tutor and severe discipline there practiced he became well vers'd in Logick and Philosophy and for a diversion now and then he wrote a Tragedy for the private use of that house called Tancredo On the 8. June 1588. he as a Member of Qu. coll did supplicate the venerable Congregation of Regents that he might be admitted to the reading of any of the books of the Logick of Aristotle that is to be admitted to the degree of Bach. of Arts which desire of his was granted conditionally that he should determine in the Lent following but whether he was admitted or did determine or took any other degree it doth not appear in any of the University Registers which I have exactly searched and the more for this reason because the author of his life saith that at 19 years of age he proceeded Master of Arts and at that time did read three Lat. Lectures De Ocello which being learned caused a friendship between him and Alberic Gentilis who thereupon ever after called him Henrice mi Ocelle The said author also saith that the University Treasury was rob'd by Townsmen and poor Scholars of which such light was given by a Letter written to Hen. Wotton from his Father in Kent occasioned by a dream relating to that matter that the Felons were thereupon discovered and apprehended c. But upon my search into the University Registers Records Accompts c. from 1584. to 1589. in which time our author Wotton was resident in Oxon I find no such robbery committed To pass by other mistakes in the said life especially as to time which are not proper to set down in this place I shall go forward After our author had left Oxon he betook himself to travel into France Germany and Italy and having spent about 9 years in those places he returned into England and became Secretary to Robert Earl of Essex with whom continuing till towards his fall he left England once more and retiring to Florence became so noted to the Great Duke of Tuscany that he was by him privately dispatched away with letters to James 6. K. of Scots under the name of Octavio Baldi to advise him of a design to take away his life Which message being welcome to that K. he was by him when made K. of England honoured with the degree of Knighthood sent thrice Embassador to the Reipub. of Venice once to the States of the Vnited Provinces twice to Charles Emanuel Duke of Savoy once to the united Princes of Vpper Germany in the Convention at Heylbrune also to the Archduke Leopald to the Duke of Wittenbergh to the Imperial Cities of Strasburgh and Vlme as also to the Emperor Ferdinando the second On the 15. July 1619. he returned from his Embassie at Venice with a vain hope of obtaining the office of Secretary of State but missing his design I cannot yet tell to the contrary but that he was sent to Venice again Sure 't is that about 1623. he had the Provostship of Eaton coll confer'd upon him which he kept to his dying day being all the reward he had for the great services he had done the Crown of England He hath written these things following Epistola de Casparo Scioppio Amberg 1613. oct This Scioppius was a man of a restless spirit and a malicous pen who in books against K. Jam. 1. took occasion from a sentence written by Sir Hen. Wotton in a Germans Album viz. Legatus est vir bonus peregrè missus ad mentiendum Reipublicae causâ to twit him in the teeth what principles in Religion were professed by him and his Embassador Wotton then at Venice where the said sentence was also written in several glass windows Epist ad Marc. Velserum Duumvir Augustae Vindelicae an 1612. The elements of Architecture Lond. 1624. qu. in two parts Reprinted in Reliquiae Wottonianae an 1651. 54. and 1672. c. oct Translated into Latin and printed with the Great Vitruvius and a great Elogy concerning Wotton put before it Amstel 1649. fol. Plausus vota ad Regem è Scotiâ reducem Lond. 1633. in a large qu. or rather in a little fol. Reprinted by Dr. Joh. Lamphire in a book intit by him Monarchia Britannica Oxon. 1681. oct 'T is in English also in Reliquiae Wotton Parallel between Rob. late Earl of Essex and George late Duke of Bucks Lond. 1641. in four sh in qu. Short view of the life and death of George Duke of Bucks Lond. 1642. in four sheets and an half in qu. Difference and disparity between the estates and conditions of George Duke of Bucks and Robert Earl of Essex Characters of and Observations on some Kings of England The election of the new Duke of Venice after the death of Giovanno Bembo Philosophical survey of education or moral Architecture Aphorisms of education The great action between Pompey and Caesar extracted out of the Rom. and Greek writers Meditations on 22 Chap. of Gen. Christmas day Letters to and characters of certain personages Various Poems All or most of which books or treatises are reprinted in a book intit Reliquiae Wottonian◠before-mentioned Lond. 1651. 54. 1672. and 1685. in oct published by Is Walton at the end of Sir H. Wottons life Letters to the Lord Zouch Printed at the latter end of Reliq Wottom in the edition of 1685. The state of Christendom or a more exact and curious discovery of many secret passages and hidden mysteries of the times Lond. 1657. fol. Letters to Sir Edm. Bacon Lond. 1661. oct He hath also several Letters extant to George Duke of Bucks in a book called Cabala Mysteries of State Lond. 1654. qu. and others in Cabala or Scrinia Sacra Lond. 1663. fol. Journal of his Embassies to Venice -MS fairly written in the Library of Edw. Lord Conway Three propositions to the Count d'Angosciola in matter of duel comprehending as it seems the latitude of that subject MS. sometimes in the Library of my most worthy Friend Ralph Sheldon Esq now among the books in the Coll. of Arms. The first proposition is Quale sia stato c. The said Count was a Gentleman of Parma from whence he was banished and afterwards lived in the Court of Savoy where he was esteemed a very punctual Duelist and there managed many differences between Gentlemen Other MSS. also of his composition do go from hand
said college and were built on the south side of those lodgings which were erected by Hen. Sever sometimes Warden He the said Dr. Fitz-James also bestowed much money in the building and finishing of S. Maries Church in Oxon. In memory of which benefaction were his Arms quartering those of Draycot engraven on stone over the north door leading from the Schoolstreet to the lower end on the north side of the body of that church His Arms also with those of Card. Joh. Moreton Archb. of Cant. and Edm. Audley Bish of Sarum were at the bottom of the Stone-pulpit in the said Ch. of S. Mary most curiously engraven and also on the roof of the old Library afterwards a Congregation-house on the north side of S. Maries Chancel To the reparation of which Church as also to the building of the Pulpit which consisted all of Ashler-stone there is no doubt but that he was a benefactor He also with his brother Sir Joh. Fitz-James L. Ch. Justice of England were the chief Founders of the School-house in Brewton in Somersetshire near which Town at Redlinch as 't is said they were both born Will. Gilbert Abbat of Brewton was a benefactor to it and so was John Edmonds D. D. Abbat of Glastenbury At length after good deeds had trod upon his heels even to Heaven gates he gave way to fate in a good old age in the beginding of fifteen hundred twenty and two year 1522 Whereupon his body was buried in the nave of his own Cathedral of S. Paul under the Altar of S. Paul near to the foundation or foot of the Campanile under a marble Tomb prepared and erected by him in his life time Afterwards was a little Chappel erected over the said Tomb wherein I presume were Masses said for his Soul But when the said Campanile was consumed with fire 1561. the Chappel then was consumed also THOMAS RUTHALL or Rowthall was born in a Market Town in Gloucestershire called Cirencester in the Church of which place I saw some years since a monument for one John Avenying and his Wife Which John dying 1401. might probably be according to time Grandfather to… Avenyng whom some call Avelyng Mother to Tho. Ruthall before-mentioned He was educated for some years in this University as it evidently appears in one or more of our Registers but in what coll or hall I know not Thence as 't is said he went to Cambridge for a time but when it doth not appear Sure it is that one Rothall took the degree of D. of D. in this University and in the year 1500. was incorporated at Cambridge with Dr. Rich. Mayhew President of Magd. coll In 1503. he was elected Chancellour of the University of Cambridge being then Archdeacon of Gloucester and in the beginning of Sept. 1505. he was made Dean of Salisbury in the place as it seems of one Edw. Cheyney who occurs Dean of that Church in Aug. 1499. About that time he being esteemed a person of great vertue and prudence he was made Secretary to K. Hen. 7. who a little before his death nominated him to the See of Durham upon the translation of Bainbridge to York Soon after K. Hen. 8. succeeding in the Throne he made him his Secretary for a time and one of his Privy Council And being then elected to the said See of Durham the temporalities thereof were restored to him 3. July 1. Hen. 8. dom 1509. Afterwards he was made L. Privy Seal was esteemed a famous Clerk and admirably well read in both the Laws being as 't is said Doctor or Professor of them Towards his latter end he founded a Free School at the place of his nativity and gave an house and seven pounds per an for the maintenance of a Master Which School having for the most part flourished in good sort hath educated many that have been eminent in Church and State He paid his last debt to nature at Durham place near London on Wednesday the fourth of Feb. in fifteen hundred twenty and two and was buried in the Chappel of S. John Baptist joyning to the Abbey-Church of S. Peter in Westminster at which time Dr. Rowl Phillips Vicar of Croydon a great Divine and a renowned Clerk preached an excellent Sermon Some years after was a fair raised Tomb built over his grave with his Statua thereon mitred and vested and a small inscription on it but false as to the year of his death MAURICE FITZ-GERALD called by some Mauritius Johannis was of ancient extract in Ireland and for a time educated in Oxon under the name of Fitz-Gerard but whether he took a degree we have no Register of that time that shews it Afterwards by provision from P. Julius 2. he was made Archb. of Cashills in Ireland and died year 1523 as 't is reported in fifteen hundred twenty and three 'T is said that certain statutes made in a Synod by him held at Limerick 1511. were inserted in the Register of Thom. Pursell B. of Lismore and Waterford which with the Reg. it self were afterwards consumed in the flames as I have before told you JOHN TYNMOUTH sometimes a Grey-Frier at Lynne in Norfolk was edacuted in Theological learning among those of his Fraternity at Cambridge and afterwards among those at Oxon and at length made a Suffragan Bishop under the tit of the Bish of Argos then in partibus infidelium year 1524 He gave way to fate in fifteen hundred twenty and four and was buried in the Ch. yard of Bostou in Lincolnshire of which place he was Vicar right against the midst of the high Altar to the end that his loving Parishioners when they should happen to see his Grave and Tomb might be sooner moved to pray for his Soul He gave at the time of his death to the houses of Grey Friers at Lynne Cambridge and Oxon 5 l. a piece EDMUND AUDLEY Son of Jam. Tuchet or Touchet Lord Audley by Alianore his wife was educated in Academical learning in Lincoln coll as it seems to which afterwards he was an especial benefactor took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1463 but whether that of Master it doth not appear in the reg of that time which is imperfect In Janu. 1471 he became Preb. of Farendon in the Church of Lincoln upon the resignation of one Rob. Skyllington or rather Stillington and in the month of Oct. 1475 Preb. of Codeworth in the Church of Wells on the death of Mr. Will Fulford On the 25. Dec. the same year he under the title of M. A. became Archdeacon of the East-Riding of Yorkshire on the death of Joh. Walker LL. B. and had other preferments in other Churches confer'd upon him At length being promoted to the See of Rochester his Archdeaconry was bestowed on a certain noble man named Edw. Pole installed therein 15. Oct. 1480. who being made Archdeacon of Richmond upon the consecration of John Shirwood B. of Durham was installed therein 6. Jan. 1484. So that thereupon
year 1534 of the same month in fifteen hundred thirty and four under which year you may see more of him among the writers His death which was no more than a down-right murder is attibuted by some precise writers as a judgment on him for his unworthy and base dealing in the dissolution of Daventry Priory in Northamptonshire being one of those many which were dissolved for the erection of the Cardinals coll in Oxon. On the 25. of July early in the morning Tho. Fitz-Gerald eldest Son of the Earl of Kildare caused him the said rev Prelate to be brought before him at Tartaine being then feeble by a late sickness who kneeling at his feet in his shirt and mantle bequeathing his Soul to God and his body to the Traytors mercy the wretched young man Tho. Fitz-Gerald before-mentioned commanded him there to be brain'd like an Ox. The place where this fact was done was afterwards hedged in overgrown and unfrequented in detestation of the fact The people have observed that all the accessaries thereof being after pardon'd for Rebellion ended their lives miserably HENRY STANDISH Doctor of Div. an eminent and learned man and a Grey Frier of the Order of S. Francis was consecrated Bishop of S. Asaph in July 1519. You may see more of him among the writers under the year fifteen hundred thirty and five year 1535 in which year he died In the said See succeeded William Barlow in the latter end of the year 1535. who a little before in the same year was sent into Scotland with one Holcroft about points of Religion against the Pope at which time he the said Barlow was stiled Prior of Bisham He was also sent soon after with William Lord Howard into the same Country at which time he went by the title of the Bishop of St. Asaph Their business then was about the interview with the Scotch King induced thereunto by his Council especially those of the Clergy See G. Buchanan in Rerum Scotic hist RICHARD RAWLINS was admitted Fellow of Merton coll in the year 1480. and afterwards proceeding in Arts he entred into the sacred Function On the 19. Feb. 1491. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences left the coll soon after being then beneficed and in 1495. proceeded in Divinity In 1504. Oct. 1. he was admitted Subdean of York on the death of Edw. Cressacre in which Dignity he was succeeded by Dr. James Harryngton in Jul. 1507. and in 1505. he became Archdeacon of Huntingdon in the place of Rob. Sherebourne promoted to the See of S. David In 1506. he was made Canon of Windsore and in the middle of June 1507. he was admitted Archdeacon of Clievland on the death of Joh. Raynolds LL. B. who died on the vigil of the Nativity going before In Dec. 1508. he was admitted Warden of Mert. coll being then also Canon of S. Pauls Cathedral and in great repute for his learning In 1512. he went with the King into France and was present at the Siege of Turwin and Tournay and in 1514. he was made Almoner to the said King in the place of Tho. Wolsey and Archd. of Huntingdon In 1521. he was deprived of his Wardenship of Mert. coll by the Archb. of Canterbury for many unworthy misdemeaners the particulars of which are too large to be here set down and soon after because he should not be a looser had the Bishoprick of S. David confer'd upon him about the beginning of the year 1523. To which See being consecrated on the 26. Apr. the same year sate there to the time of his death which hapned about the beginning of fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 His immediate Predecessor in the said See was Edw. Vaughan of the University of Cambridge who dying in Nov. or Dec. in 1522. was buried in the Chappel of the holy Trinity within the Cath. Ch. of S. David Which Chappel he a little before his death had built at his own charge RICHARD NIKKE or Nix a Somersetshire man born as it seems but in what house in Oxon where he had spent some years in study he was educated it appears not In the beginning of the year 1473. he by the name of Rich. Nikke Clerk was collated to the Church of Ashbury in the Dioc. of Sarum and in Sept. 1489. he by the title of Doctor of the Laws became Rector of Chedsey in Somesetshire being then Preb. of Yotton in the Church of Wells In 1492. he was constituted Vicar General to Rich. Fox Bishop of B. and Wells and in Jul. 1494. he was made Archdeacon of Wells with the Prebend of Huish annexed on the resignation of Will. Nikke LL. D. In 1496. he was made Canon of Winasore and about the same time Registrary of the most Noble Order of the Garter Afterwards he had one or more benefices confer'd on him in the Diocess of Wells and in that of Durham besides the Archdeaconry of Exeter and at length on the death of Dr. Tho. Jane being elected to the Episcopal See of Norwich had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto by the name of Rich. Nikke Clerk Dean of the Kings Chappel on the 24. of Apr. 1501. where sitting about 35 years died blind in fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 He was buried between two pillars on the south side of the body of the Cath. Ch. of Norwych next to those two pillars between which Miles Spencer Dr. of Law and Chanc. of Norwych was buried Over the said Nikkes grave was a low Tomb erected whereon were the Arms of the See of Norwych impaling a Chevron between 3 Leopards heads being the same that are on the roof of the north cross Isle Which roof is supposed to have been either repaired or built by him as also part of if not all the said Isle In the See of Norwych succeeded one Will. Rugg alias Repps a Doctor of Div. of Cambridge and Abbat of the Monastery of S. Benedict in Hulmo Son of Will. Rugg of North-Repps in Nofolk who resigning the said Bishoprick in January 1549. died 21. of Sept. 1550. and was buried in the middle of the Choire of the Cath. Ch. at Norwych As for Will. Nikke before-mentioned he was as I conceive brother to the Bishop aed being Preb. of Ilton in the Church of Wells became Archd. of Wells on the resignation of Tho. Bridlington in the month of Apr. 1473. ROBERT SHEREBOURNE a Hampshire man born was educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester became true and perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1474. afterwards M. of A. and in Orders Canon of Lincoln Preb. of Whitechurch and Beneger in the Church of Wells which he resigned in Octob. 1493. Archdeacon of Taunton with the Preb. of Milverton annex'd upon the resignation of Will. Worsley LL. D. in the month of Dec. 1496. Archdeacon of Huntingdon about the same time and in 1499. Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral within the City of London on the
the citation of Katherine the Q. Dowager to appear at Dunstable six miles distant from Ampthill when she was divorced and the marriage declared to be void and of no effect He also burnt W. Tyndales translation of the Bible was a disputer with Joh. Lambert alias Nicholls and boasted as R. Holinshed tells us that he had burned fifty Hereticks meaning Protestants and as Dr. Humphrey saith that he had sacrificed to the god of hell above three hundred WALTER WELLESLEY commonly called Wesley was bred up a Canon Regular of the Order of S. Austin and among them in Oxon was he educated for a time Afterwards he became Prior of those Canons of his Order living at Conal in the County of Kildare in Ireland and Master of the Rolls in that Kingdom At length upon the desire of K. Hen. 8. made to P. Clem. 7. he became Bishop of Kildare in 1531. and dying in fifteen hundred thirty and nine was buried in the said Monastery of Conal the Priorship of which he kept in Commendam with his Bishoprick WILLIAM MORE had part of his education among the Oxonians but more in another University was afterwards Vicar of Walden in Essex and Suffragan Bishop of Colchester In 1537. he was made Prebendary of Gevendale in the Church of York but resigned it the year after and on 14. Sept. 1539. he was installed Archdeacon of Leycester in the room of Edm. Bonner promoted to the See of Hereford He died in the Summer-time in fifteen hundred and forty year 1540 and was succeeded in his Archdeaconry in the beginning of March following by Tho. Robertson One Will. More was Lord Prior of Worcester which honourable place he resigned in 1535. but was not the same with him who was Bishop THOMAS SPARKE a Benedictine Monk of Durham spent some time in study in Durham coll in this University took the degree of Bac. of Div. in 1528. being about that time Prior of a certain Cell In 1536. he was nominated and made Suffragan to the Bishop of Durham under the title of the Suffragan Seat of Barwick which is the utmost Town in England towards Scotland See more of him in the Fasti an 1528. THOMAS CHARD or Cherd a Devonian born as it seems was bred a Benedictine Monk and among those was he educated for a time in Oxon but what degrees he took it appears not Afterwards retiring into his own Country he was made Suffragan to Oldham Bishop of Exeter under the title of Bishop of Salubric and by that title do I find him collated to the Vicaridge of Wellyngton in Somersetshire on the resignation of Rich. Gilbert Doct. of Decrees in the month of June 1512. Three years after or thereabouts he had the Priorship of Mountacute of the Benedictine alias Cluniack Order in the said County confer'd upon him on the death as it seems of Joh. Water and in Aug. 1521. he was admitted to the Church of Tyntenhull in the Dioc. of Wells all little enough god-wot to support his honourable dignity By his last Will and Test made 1. Oct. 1541. and proved 4. Nov. 1544. he became a benefactor to the Church of S. Mary Otery in Devon to the Churches of S. Mary Magd. in Taunton at Wellyngton Holberton c. in Somersetshire See another Thom. Chard in the Fasti under the year 1507. EDWARD LEE sometimes of S. Mary Magd. coll was installed Arch. of York on the eleventh of Dec. 1531. year 1544 and died in fifteen hundred forty and four under which year you may see more of him among the Writers In the said See of York succeeded a very worldly person named Rob. Halgate or Holgate D. D. ejected thence when Q. Mary came to the Crown for being as 't is said a married man By his last Will and Test dated 27. Apr. 1555. and proved 4. Dec. 1556. he bequeathed his body to be buried in that Parish wherein he should happen to die but what Parish that is I cannot yet tell ANDREW WHITMAYE a Glocestershire man born as it seems but whether he was of any Order appears not was made Bishop of Crysopolitan and Suffragan to the Bishop of Worcester in the time of K. Hen. 8. but the particular year I cannot yet find He gave way to fate in the Dioc. year 1547 of Gloucester in fifteen hundred forty and six or thereabouts leaving then behind him a brother named John Whitmaye Vicar of Minsterworth in Gloucestershire JOHN LONGLAND sometimes Fellow of Magdalen college afterwards Principal of the hall joyning thereunto was consecrated Bishop of Lincoln in May 1521. and died in May in fifteen hundred forty and seven year 1547 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See of Linc. succeeded one Dr. Hen. Holbech alias Rands written sometimes Hen. Randes of Holbech in Lancolnshire educated in Cambridge made the last Lord Prior of Worcester on the resignation of Will. More an 1535. consecrated Suffragan Bishop of Bristow for Latymer B. of Worcester 24. March 1537. constituted the first Dean of Worcester 33. Hen. 8. Dom. 1541. translated from Bristow to Rochester in June 1544. and thence to Lincoln before-mentioned in 1547. He concluded his last day after the 2. Aug. in 1551. and was buried as I suppose in his own Church at Linc. leaving then behind him a Son named Thomas WILLIAM KNIGHT was a Londoner born educated in Wykehams School near Winchester became perpetual Fellow of New coll after he had served two years of Probation in 1493. but leaving that place two years after he went to the Royal Court where his parts and industry being soon known was made Secretary to King Hen. 7. and 8. The last of which sending him on an Embassie to Maximilian the Emperour found so much favour from him that besides the great gifts received from his Treasury he had by Letters Pat. dated 14. Jul. 1514. a Coat of Arms granted to him as a farther token of reward for his many services done for the English King in exposing his life to danger wearing it out in continual labours for him and ready for the future to do the like if occasion should require c. The Arms granted to him by the name and title of Will. Knyght Prothonatary of the Apostolical Seat and Embassador from K. Hen. 8. to Maximilian the Emp. are these Parted per fess or and gules an Eagle with two heads displayed sable having on its breast a demi-rose and a demi-sun conjoyned into one counterchanged of the Feild Which Arms are at this day remaining in one of the south windows of the common Refectory of New coll In the beginning of the year 1523. he became Archdeacon of Huntingdon on the resignation of Rich Rawlins promoted to the See of S. David and in the beginning of Dec. 1529. he being then or about that time Prebendary of the fifth Prebendship of the Kings Chappel of S. Stephen within the Pallace of Westminster and newly returned
Dignitaries in the Church as Deans Archdeacons Chancellours of Churches and Dioceses Chauntors c. as also of Heads of Colleges and Halls Who have been admitted to 1 2 or more Degr. 5. Abbats Priors Gardians c Who have been admitted to 1 2 or more Degr. 6. Monks and Friers supposed to be eminent for Place Learning or published Writings c. Who have been admitted to 1 2 or more Degr. 7. Martyrs either for the Rom. Catholic or Protestant Cause Who have been admitted to 1 2 or more Degr. 8. Many learned Men. who have not been Writers and Men of Note in the way they profess'd with their Characters Who have been admitted to 1 2 or more Degr. 9. Writers and Translators of inconsiderable Account such I mean that have published but one Sermon or a little Pamphlet or have Translated but one or two Books with the Titles of such Sermons and Books or Pamphlets that they have written or translated Who have been admitted to 1 2 or more Degr. 10. All Doctors of what Faculty soever whether Writers or not Writers Bishops then or afterwards or 〈◊〉 Bishops eminent or not eminent c. with the Day and Year when they were admitted or licensed to proceed in their respective Faculties 11. Those that have been incorporated or embodied or taken into the bosom of the said University as such who have been of any Note in the Univ. of Cambridge or of any Univ. in the learned World with their Characters and Titles of Books 〈…〉 they have written and published The Incorporations also of Princes Dakes Marquesâ—es Earls c. Archbishops Bishops Abbaâ—s Priors c. Deans Archdeacons c. with their Characters c. 12. Those that have been actually created or inveâ—ted with Degrees or have had Degrees confer'd upon then without any or but little Scholastical Exercise performed for them I mean the Names of such only who have been Princes Dukes Marqueâ—ses c. Archbishops Bishops Temporal Lords Baronets Knights eminent Common Lawyers c. The Names also of certain Writers who have been created and of such who have been supposed to have had something of Eminence in them or have 〈…〉 in Church or State with their Char. c. 13. 〈◊〉 Scholars and Writers with their Characters and sometimes an Account of their Works who have 〈◊〉 in Oxon purposely to advance themselves in Learning or for the sake of Libraries An. Dom. 1500. An. 15-16 Hen 7. The Chancellour of the University this year was Dr. John Moreton Archb. of Canterbury and Cardinal of S. Anastasius But he dying in the Month of Sept. Dr Will. Atwater became Câ—ncellarius 〈◊〉 and in his Absence W. Herward D. D. and others At length in the beginning of Nov. following the Members of the University elected for their Chancellour Dr. Will. Smith Bishop of 〈◊〉 Which honorable Office he upon notice by Letters accepting the said Members delegated Mr. John Reede Chaplain to the Prince afterwards Warden of Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester and Mr. John Dunham Bâ—ch of Div. to give him his Oath which being taken he was admitted to his Office The 〈◊〉 or Vicechancellour of the University was this year Mr Will. 〈◊〉 D. D 〈◊〉 S. Mary Magdâ—â—â—â— Coll. Proctors 〈…〉 〈…〉 The Senior Proctor who was Fellow of Line Coll. was afterwards Archdeacon of Stow in the place as I conceive of Hugh Hanworth who dying the 7th of March 1518 was buried in the Cath. Church of Lincoln He the said Darby also was Canon resident of Line and Prebendary of Ketton in the said Church and dying in 1542 was buried in Chanter Isle joyning to the Cath. Ch. of Line before mentioned See more of him and his Benefaction to Learning in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxom lib. 2. p. 161. Masters of Art Or such who were licensed to proceed in Arts or admitted among the number of Masters of the Faculty of Arts in order to their proceeding or being compleated in that Degree in the Act or Comitia following Will Gray or Grey The same as I have just reason to conceive who was some years after this time Archdeacon of Berkshire in the place of Christop Twinkley as also Prebendary of Horton in the Church of Sarton He died in the Year 1521 at which time he bequeathed twenty Marks to the University Chest four Marks for the Reparation of S. Mary's Church and four Pounds to buy a new pair of Organs to be plaid upon in the said Church For which and other his good Deeds was yearly a Dirige and Mass said for the health of his Soul In his Archdeaconry succeeded Rob. Audley nearly related to Edm. Audley B. of Sarum 14 Feb. 1521. Opponents in Divinity Or such who opposed in Divinity disputations in the School belonging to that Faculty in order to their Admission to the Degree of Bach. of Divinity Tho. Browne He was about this time Prior of the Cell at Dunster in Somersetshire The said Cell or Priory was for Benedictines or Black Monks and stood as Jo. Leland tells us in the roots of the North-west side of the Castle at Durster and was a Cell to the Priory at Bathe Bachelaurs of Divinity Or such who were admitted to the reading of the Master of the Sentences or to the Sentences of Pet. Lombard John Storke or Sterke Prior of the House or Coll. of the Fryers of the Order of S. Austin the Hermit This Coll. was situated in the North Suburb of Oxon. On the scite of which place Wadham Coll. was afterwards built John Hakebourne Prior of the Coll. of S. Mary the Virgin a Nursery for 〈◊〉 Regulars of the Order of S. Austin within the University of Oxon The great Gate of this Coll. which is now standing is almost opposite to that of New Inn in a Lane commonly called New Inn Lane This John Hâ—keboâ—n I take to be the same with him who is sometimes written John Haukebourn who was after this time Doctor of Divinity and Lord Abbat of the Monastery of our Lady at Cirencester a place for Black Canons in Glocestersâ—re John Holwel of Exeter Coll. In the year 1505 he occurs Principal of Black Hall near to that of Hart about which time he was Canon of the Cath. Ch. at Exeter Doctors of the Civil Law Or such who were 〈◊〉 to proceed in the Civil Law or admitted Doctors of the Civil Law in order to proceed or to be compleated Doctors in the Act following Henry Wilcocks now or about this time Principal or chief Moderator of the Civil Law School in the Parish of S. Edward being Deputy for Dr. Will. Warham Master of the Rolls and afterwards Archb of Canterbury This Civil Law School and the Church of S Edward both which joyned together have been time out of mind demolished They stood in or near that Lane which we now call Blew-â—oar Lane near to the Back-gate of the 〈◊〉 Inn. This Dr. Wilcocks was Archdeacon of 〈◊〉 in which Dignity he was succeeded by Ric. Mawdly or
Mawdion D. D and Vicar gen to Dr. Smith Bishop of Lincoln Doctors of the Canon Law Or such who were licensed to proceed in the Decrees or Canon Law c. Roger Sandyford or Sandford Principal of Broadgates Hall in the Parish of All Saints Upon the Resignation of Philip Agard an Inceptor in the sacred Canons or Decrees the said Rog. Sandford succeeded in the Principality of that Hall in 1498. which Hall did once stand where now is a Yard containing divers Tenements belonging to Magd College the Gate leading to which is almost opposite to the sometimes Inn called the Swâ—n in that part of the High Street between the Churches of All 〈◊〉 and S. Mary Will. Horsley Principal of Pâ—ckwaters Inn. This Inn is involved in that Quadrangle belonging to Ch Ch. now called Peckwater This year was a Supplicate made in the venerable Congregation of Regents for one Tho. Dalby to be admitted to a Degree in Decrees but whether he was admitted I cannot yet tell This Tho. Dalby whom I find afterwards written Doctor of Decrees was installed Archdeacon of Richmond in Oct. 1506 upon the Promotion of James Stanley to the See of Ely was made about that time Prebendary of the Prebend of Stillington and Canon residentiary in the Church of York afterwards the thirty seventh Provost of the Church of S. John at Beverley Treasurer of the Pallace of Tho. Savage sometimes Archb. of York Chaplain and Counsellor to King Hen. 7. and Dean of the Chappel to the Duke of Richmond and Somerset This Dr. Dalby died 26 Jan. 1525 and was buried in the North Isle joyning to the Choire of the Cath. Church of York I find another Tho. Dalby who was Archdeacon of Richmond and Residentiary in the Church of York but he dying in 1400 must not be supposed to be the same with the former Doctors of Divinity Or such who were licensed to proceed in Divinity or admitted Doctors or Professors of Divinity or of the Holy Writ in order to their proceeding or being compleated in that Degree in the Act following William Vavasor Gardian or Warden of the House or Coll. of the Franciscans or Grey Fryers in the South Suburb of Oxon. This Coll. was situated without Little Southgate commonly called Watergate where now a Brewer and a Tanner besides other People live and the Gardens and Grove belonging thereunto situated on the West side of the said Coll. are now called by the Name of Paradise Garden This College was one of the famousest Places for learned Fryers in the Christian World and therein did Roger Bacon the Miracle of his Age for Learning live and die in the Habit of a Franciscan Another Miracle also did live and study there about Roger's death named John Doâ—â—s highly famed at this day beyond the Seas for those Books which he hath written yet so little valued now among many English Men that the Philosopher of Malmsbury doth not stick to say that any ingenious Reader not knowing what was the design meaning the Pope's design to carry on his Authority would judge him to have been the most egregious Blockhead in the World so obscure and senseless are his Writings Hugh Saâ—ders alias Shackspear of Merton Coll. He was afterwards Principal of S. Albans Hall and is stiled in one of our publick Registers Vir literis virtute percelebis John Stanywell Prior of the Benedictine Monks of Glocester Coll. now Gloc. Hall He was the same Person with John Stonywell who was soon after Lord Abbat of Pershore a Monastery for Benedictines in Worcestershire and a Bishop by the Title of Episc Poâ—etensis as I have among the Bishops told you Joh. Avery of Lincoln Coll. He was afterwards several times Commissary of the University John Percivall the seven and fortieth Minister or Provincial of the Minorites Franciscans or Grey Fryers in England did proceed about this Year in Divinity See among the Writers under the year 1502. Joh. Kynton a Minorite or Franciscan did also proceed this year but when admitted I find not An. Dom. 1501 An. 16 17 Hen. 7 Chancellour Dr. Will. Smyth Bishop of Lincoln afterwards the worthy Founder of Brasnose Coll. Commissaries Will. Atwater beforemention'd Tho. Bâ—â—ke D. D. Rector of Linc. Coll. Hugh Saunders D. D. beforemention'd Proctors John Game of Allsoules Coll. elected for the Southern Proctor Will. Dale elected for the Northern Proctor Bachelaurs of the Civil Law Or such who were admitted to the reading of any of the Books of Institutions Thomas Howell Archdeacon of Cardigan c. Mast of Arts Or such who were licensed to proceed in Arts c. William Hew He was afterwards Bishop of Oâ—â—se in Spain John Longland of S. Mar. Magd. Coll. He became Bishop of Linc. in 1521. Tho. Randolph of New Coll. did proceed about this year He was afterwards Canon and Prebendary of the Cath. Church at Lincoln Bach. of Divinity Tho. Brynknell of Linc. Coll. See more among the Writers under the year 1521. Clement Lychfeld a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict in the Monastery of Eâ—â—sham in Worcestershire He was afterwards Abbat of that Place and continuing there till towards the dissoultion of Religious Houses with a resolution not to surrender his House for a profane use was at length by the tricks of Tho. â—romwel Secretary of State to K. Hen 8. perswaded to resign his pastoral Staff to one Philip Hawford alias Ballard a young Monk of Evesham which being done accordingly not altogether to the content of Lychfeld was a Surrender of that Monastery soon after made into the hands of the said King For which Service Ballard had not only a considerable Pension allowed but also the Deanery of Worcester given to him an 1553 â— Mar. upon the deprivation of one John Barlow M. A. who had been installed Dean in June 1544 in the place of Hen. Holbeach alias Rands the first Dean afterwards Bishop of Lincoln As for Lychfeld who was a most pious and zealous man in the way he professed he expended much Money in building the Abbey of Evesham and other places belonging to it as also in building and adorning the Choir He made also a right sumptuous and high square Tower of Stone in the Cemitery of Evesham This Tower had a great Bell in it and a goodly Clock and was as a Gatehouse to one piece of the Abbey This Abbat builded at his Mâ—â—or at Vssâ—nham about a mile above Evesham This good man died at or near Evesham and was buried in a Chappel which he before had built joyning to the Abbey-Church there 9 Octob. 1540. In memory of whom was in his life time an Inscription set up in a Window of the said Church running thus Orate pro anima Domini Clementis Lychfeld Sacerdotis cujus tempore turris Eveshamiae â—dficata est John Colet M. A. was about this time admitted to the reading of the Sentences Henry Rytoner Abbat of Rewley a Monastery for Cistercians in the West Suburb of Oxon.
Gam or Game of Allsoules Coll. sometimes one of the Proctors of the University He was now Principal of Biham commonly called Beame Hall in the Parish of S. John Bapt. Which Principality he resigned this year to make room for Hugh Pole of the same Coll. Doct. of Div. John Thornden or Thornton did proceed in Divinity about this Year He was afterwards several times Commissary of the University and a Bishop as I have before told you This year one John Newland a Black or Regular Canon of the Order of S. Augustin supplicated for a Degree in Divinity but whether granted which is very imperfect or not at all tells us not This is the same John Newland who was born at Newland in the Forest of Deane in Glocestershire and was commonly called and written John Naileheart alias Newland He was the last Abbat saving one of the Monastery of S. Austin at Bristol in which Monastery as also in the Church belonging thereto he expended much Money in building and adorning He was called the Good Abbat being a Person solely given up to Religion and Almsdeeds and after he had ruled 33 years or thereabouts he gave way to Fate in a good old Age and was buried on the south side of the Choire of the Church of S. Austin now the Cath. Church at Bristol Over his Grave is his Statua in Pontificalia graven or carved out from Stone laying on the Back with a Crosier in his Hand and a Miâ—re on his Head His Arms do now or did lately continue in the Church and other Buildings of that Monastery which are a Man's heart pierced thro from top to bottoâ—â— with three nails which is as 't were a Rebus for Naileheart An. Dom. 1503. An. 18 19 Hen. 7. Chanc. Rich. Mayhew D. D. Archdeacon of Oxford c. at length Bish of Hereford Commiss John Thornden or Thornton D. D. John Kynton D. D. a Minorite Sim. Greene alias Fotherbie D. D. of Linc Coll. Proct. John Stokesley of Magd. Coll. Rich. Dudley of Oriel Coll. The Senior who was the Northern Proctor was afterwards Bish of London and the Junior who was the Southern Proctor was afterwards Chancellour of the Church of Salisbury He was Master of Arts of this University but whether he took any Degree in Divinity therein I find not See more in 1508. Bachelaurs of Arts Or such who were admitted to the reading of any Book of the Faculty of Arts of the Logick of Aristotle Edward Lee of S. Mar. Magd. Coll. seems to have been admitted Bach. of Arts this year among twenty or thereabouts that were admitted within the compass of the same year We have no Register that shews it only certain imperfect and broken Scripts containing sums of money received for the taking of Degrees which I have seen but I think are now perish'd Bach. of Physick Or such who were admitted to the reading of any Book of the Aphorismes of Hypocrates Rich. Barthlet Master of Arts and Fellow of Allsoules Coll. See more among the Doctors of Physick under the year 1508. Doct. of Div. Will. Salyng or Selling Lord Prior of Martyn or Merton in Surrey Rob. Tehy or Thay of Magd. Coll. Rich. Sydenore of the same Coll. about this time Archdeacon of Totness In 1518 he was made Canon of Windsor and in 1524 constituted Scribe or Registrary of the most noble Order of the Garter He died 1534 and was I presume buried in the Chap. of S. George at Windsor In his Canonry and Registrary's place succeeded Rob. Aldridge who was afterwards Bish of Carlisle and in his Archdeaconry of Totness succeeded as it seems George Carew This year was a Supplication made in the ven Congregation of Regents for one Rich. Bere a Benedictin Monk to be graduated in Divinity but whether in the Degree of Bach. or Doct. it appears not or whether he was admitted to either 'T was the same Rich. Bere who was installed Abbat of Glastenbury on the Death of John Selwood the former Abbat 20 January 1493 after the Election of another Person named Tho. Wasyn a Monk of the same Order had been cassated by Rich. Fox Bish of B. and Wells on the 12. of Nov. going before This Rich. Bere who was well known to and reverenced by Erasmus died 20. Jan. 1524 whereupon Rich. Whyting was elected Abbat in his place on the third of March following there being then in the Monastery of Glastenbury 47 Monks If you are pleased to know more of this Bere you may read what Leland saith of him and his Benefaction to the said Abbey thus Rich. Bere Abbat built the new Lodgings by the great Chamber called the Kings Lodgings in the Gallery He builded also new Lodgings for Secular Priests and Clerks of our Ladies Chappel He also arched on both sides the East part of the Church He built Edgar's Chappel at the East end of the Church Abbat Whyting performed part of it Abbat Bere made the Vault on the Steple in trancepto He also made a rich Altar of Silver and guilt and set it afore the high Altar And coming from his Embassadry out of Italy made a Chappel of our Lady of Loretto joyning to the North side of the Body of the Church He made the Chappel in the South end Navis Ecclesiae Glaston whereby he is buried sub plano mannore in the South Isle of the Body of the Church He made an Almshouse in the North part of the Abbey with a Chappel for seven or ten poor Women He also made the Mannor place at Sharpham in the Park two miles by West from Glaston It was before a poor Lodge c. An. Dom. 1504. An. 19 20 Hen. 7. Chanc. Dr. Rich. Mayhew by whose Persuasion K. Hen. 7 gave 10l yearly Revenue to the Univ. of Oxon conditionally that the Members thereof celebrate a solemn Maâ—s for him yearly in S. Maries Church Commiss Sim. Greene again John Kynton again Rob. Tehy or Thay D. D. of Magd. Coll. Proct. Laur. Stubbes of Magd. Coll. Bor. elected 17. Apr. John Beverston of Mert. Coll. Principal of S. John Bapt. Hall Austr elected 17. Apr. Mast of Arts. Edward Finch Of what Coll. or Hall he was a Member I cannot yet find sure I am that on the 23 Sept. 1517 he became Predendary of Fordington and Writhlington in the Church of Salisbury on the death of Andrew Ammonius an Italian whom I have mention'd among the Writers in Will. Grocyn an 1522. that also he was made Archdeacon of Wiltshire on the death of Christoph Vrshwyke 12 May 1522 and Preb. of Chermister and Bere in the said Church of Sarum on the death of Rob. Langton sometimes of Queens Coll in this University 30. June 1524. Philip Dense Fellow of Mert. Coll. He hath this Character added to his Name in the Album of that Society Medicus Astronomus cum primis doctus In the Act wherein these two proceeded were about 14 Masters but whether any of them were afterwards Bishops Writers or
Kirkby Mast of Arts of this Univ. and Bach. of Divin of the Univ. of Paris was incorporated Bach. of Div. of this University Which being done he supplicated the same day to be admitted or licensed to proceed in Divinity but whether granted it appears not … James Denton Doctor of the Laws sometimes Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge did this year supplicate to be incorporated but whether he was really so it appears not He was Chancellour to the Lady Mary Queen Dowager of France who was afterwards married to Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk and so I presume he took that Degree beyond the Seas About this time he being one of the King's Counsellors and much in savour was made Prebendary of York Lincoln Salisbury and in 1510 Canon of Windsor In 1521 or thereabouts he succeeded Dr. Ralph Collingwood in the Deanery of Lichfieâ—d having been installed Prebendary of that Church by his Proctor Dr. Rich. Salter of Oxon. an 1509 and in 1523 he became Archdeacon of Clievland in the Church of York upon the promotion of Dr. Richard Rawlyns of Mert. Coll. to the See of S. David This Dr. Denton was also Lord President of Wales and dying at Ludlow in Shropshire in 1532 was there buried In his Deanery of Lichfield succeeded Dr. Rich. Sampson who holding it till 1536 at which time he was promoted to the See of Chichester Rich. Williams Chaplain to and beloved of K. Hen. 8. succeeded In his Archdeaconry of Clievland succeeded Tho. Bedell as I shall tell you under the year 1508 and in his Canonry of Windsore Dr. Rich. Wolman whom I shall mention elsewhere This Dr. Denton built the large Back-stairs at Windsore was an especial Benefactor to the Church there by founding Maintenance for the Singing-men and Choiristers and did with Dr. John Clerke Dean of Windsore receive by Indenture from the Lord Hastyngs the Sheets as a Relique wherein K. Hen. 6. Founder of Kings College in Cambridge lay when he was murdered in the Tower An. Dom. 1506. An. 21 22 Hen. 7. Chanc. Dr. William Warham Archbishop of Canterbury elected 28 May upon the resignation then made of Dr. Mayhew Bish of Hereford Commiss John Thornden or Thornton Will. Fauntleroy of New Coll. who was admitted D. of D. this year Proct. Edw. Colyar of Vnivers Coll. Bor. elected 24 Apr. Rich. Stokes of Magd. Coll. Austr elected 28 of the same Month. Bach. of Musick None do occur in our Registers that were admitted only Richard Ede a Canon Regular and a Scholar in Musick did supplicate the ven Congregation to be admitted Bachelaur of that Faculty Feb. 10. but whether he was now or after really admitted it appears not Bach. of Arts. Dec. 17. Leonard Huchenson of Balliol afterwards Master of Vniversity Coll. Feb. 8. Rob. Morwent of Magdalen afterwards President of Corp. Christi Coll. Beside these two who were great Promoters and Encouragers of Learning were 32 more admitted Bach. of Arts this year Bach. of the Civ Law Or such who were admitted to the reading of any Book of the Institutions as I have before told ye Jan. 28. John Incent or Innocent of Allsoules Coll. Two days before he was admitted Bach. of the Canon Law as I shall anon tell you Besides him were admitted this year six more and eight at least that supplicated for the said Degree who were not this year admitted among whom Joh. Prynne was one Nov 24. This J. Prynne I take to be the same who was Prior of the Monastery at Timbridge in Kent an 1518. Bach. of the Can. Law Or such who were admitted to the extraordinary reading or reading extraordinary of any Book of the Decretals or Volumes as I have before told you Mar. 29. John Ashdowne a Monk of the Cluniac Order and Prior of the Monastery of Lewes in Sussex He had before spent seven years in studying the Canon Law in Cambridge Jan. 26. Joh. Incent or Innocent before mention'd who had formerly spent one year in the study of the Canon Law at Cambridge was then admitted Bach. of the Canon Law He was afterwards Doctor of his Faculty as I shall tell you hereafter and the worthy Dean of S Pauls Cath. Church in London Besides these two were eleven more admitted this year and about fifteen that supplicated for the said Degree of whom Thom. Egyston a Benedictine was one The rest were mostly secular Chaplains among whom Rich. Hyllâ— or Hylley was of the number but whether the same with one of both his names who succeeded in the Treasurership of the Church of Salisbury one Henry Sutton sometimes Fellow of Merton College in the Month of Aug. 1505 I know not The said Rich. Hylley who was Treasurer dying in Sept. or thereabouts in 1533 Nicholas Shaxton D. D. succeeded him in that Dignity in the beginning of Oct. the same year and him who was afterwards Bishop of Salisbury Rich. Sampson LL. D. as I shall tell you under the year 1521. Masters of Arts. Of 23 Masters of Arts who were admitted and stood in three several Acts solemnized in S. Maries Church this year whereof one was 3 July another 26 Jan. and the third on the 8 Feb. I cannot yet find any one of them that arrived to any Eminence only John Hewys of Merton Coll. who was Chaplain to Qu. Catherine and a rich Dignitary in the Church Opponents in Divinity Or such who opposed in Divinity disputations in the School belonging to that Faculty in order to their admission to the degree of Bach. of Div. May 13. Frater Dedicus Fernandus a Dominican or Black or Preaching Fryer June 28. Frat. Petrus Lusitanus a Minorite or Franciscan or Grey Fryer Neither of these two who were learned men appear in the public Register to be afterwards admitted Bach. of Divinity Besides them were six more admitted to oppose who were all religious or of religious Orders and eight that supplicated to oppose all except one of religious Orders also among whom Nich. Pepyr a Canon Regular was one Of him by the way I must let the Reader know that he was elected Prior of the House of Can. Regulars at Taunton in Somersetshire on the Resignation of John Prows 23 Feb. 1513 and dying there 26 Sept. 1523 one Will. York of the same Order was admitted Prior in his place In the year 1519 when the said York was admitted Bach. of Div. this Pepyr did then supplicate for that Degree Bach. of Div. Dec. 14. Thom. Goldwell of Canterbury Coll. who on the 19. of Oct. going before was admitted to oppose in Divinity was then admitted Bach. of Divinity He was a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict and in the year 1517 was chose the last Prior of the Church at Canterbury I have mention'd another Thom. Goldwell among the Bishops under the year 1580. Feb. ult Rob. Kynge a Monk of the Cistercian Order in the Abbey of Rewley in the West Suburb of Oxon. He was afterwards the first Bishop of Oxford See more among the D.
Principal or Supreme Moderator of Civ Law School in St. Edwards Parish Oxon. Feb. 26. Thom. Barret of New Inn He was soon after Principal of the said Inn and in 1540 became Canon of Kings Coll. or the Coll. founded by K. Hen. 8. on the site of that of Card. Wolsey One John Hewys LL. Bac. who had practised the said faculty in the Court of the Lord Cardinal Wolsey supplicated to be Doctor of the Civ Law but occurs not admitted I take this Person to be the same with Dr. Hewes who was a forward Man in examining Protestants that were to suffer upon account of Religion in Queen Maries Reign Doct. of Can. Law Feb. 17. John Southwode Fellow of Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester and Canon residentiary of Wells He died and was buried at Wells 26. John Rede sometimes of New Coll. now Fellow of Wykeham's Coll. beforemention'd I have spoken of another John Rede in the year 1507. One Robert Woodward Warden of All 's Coll. occurs Doctor of Decrees this year but when he was admitted it appears not Will. Cleyton also mention'd in 1527 who had practised the Canon Law several years in the Court of the Lord Cardinal Wolsey supplicated to be admitted Doctor of that faculty but occurs not admitted Doct. of Div. Jun. 28. Fa. Reb Basyng a 〈…〉 He was about this time an Abbat or Prior There also supplicated for the said Degree Fa. William Thryske Abbat of Fountaines in Yorkshire Fa. Rich. Gloucester a Benedictine and as I think an Abbat Tho. Marshall c. ☞ Not one incorporation this year only that of Rich. Porte M. A. of Cambridge Apr. 2. which is all I know of him An. Dom. 1529. An. 21. Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss Dr. Cottysford Proct. John Warner of All 's Coll. Tho. Duke of New Coll. Ap. 7. The Senior of which Proctors was after he had been 7 weeks in his office admitted to the reading of the Aphorismes of Hypocrates Bach. of Arts. Dec. 3. John Shepreve or Shepry of C. C. Coll. now in great esteem for his sufficiencies in the Greek and Hebrew tongues 13. John Whyte of New Coll. He was afterwards successively B. of Linc. and Winchester Forty eight more or thereabout were admitted and but six that supplicated for the said Degree who were not this year admitted Bach. of Civil Law March 3. Henry Cole of New Coll. I have spoken largely of him among the Writers Besides him were but ten Bachelers of the Civil Law admitted and but one that supplicated for that Degree Bach. of Can. Law Apr. 2. John Salysbury I take him to be the same who was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man Qu. Dec. 2. Will. Thomas See among the Writers under the year 1554. Fifteen in all were admitted this year and about nine there were that supplicated who were not admitted Mast of Arts. Apr. 13. Owen Oglethorp of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Carlile Jun. 21. John Akers a Can. of Card. Coll. He was somtimes of the University of Cambridge where he was esteemed a learned Man c. Besides these two were about 25 admitted and but six that supplicated for the said Degree among whom were Robert Talbot of New Coll. afterwards a learned and judicious Antiquary Thom. Goldwell afterwards B. of St. Asaph and Leonard Cox the learned Schoolmaster of Reading in Berks. Bach. of Physick Jun. ult John Warner M. A. Fellow of All 's Coll. and one of the Proctors of the University was admitted Bach. of Physick and at the same time was licensed to practise the same faculty He was a learned Man of his time but hath published nothing and a great intruder into Ecclesiastical Benefices and Dignities as I shall tell you elsewhere Opponents in Div. May 7. Father John ap Rice a Cistercian and Abbat of Stratmarkell in the Dioc. of St. Asaph He was now resident in St. Bernards Coll. where he obtained his knowledge in Divinity but whether he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences which usually follows opposition in Divinity it appears not The other two Fathers that opposed with him were admitted as I am now about to tell you Bach. of Div. Jun. 28. Fath. Rich. Horte or Hart Dec. 17. Fat Thom. Bylond Can. Regulars Both which were about this time either Abbats or Priors For the said Degree to which but 4 in all were admitted supplicated at least nine among whom were Fath. John Hayward a Can. regular the same if I mistake not that fitted for the University Father Rob. Persons the Jesuit as I have before told you Fath. Thomas Richmond a Cistercian Monk Fa. Jo. Wygge an Austin Fryer c. Doct. of Law Not one in the Canon or Civ Law was admitted or did proceed this year Doct. of Div. Dec. 16. John Moreman of Exeter Coll. This Person who was very learned in his time and hath as 't is thought written several matters of his faculty but lost was born at Southole in Devon and after he had left his Coll. became Vicar of Mayhanet in Cornwall where with much labour he taught the Parishioners to say the Lords Prayer Belief and 10 Commandments in the English tongue about the latter end of the Reign of K. Hen. 8. being the first of all that did so in that Country He was afterwards as 't is said Dean of Exeter and being 〈◊〉 to the B. thereof was as John Fox saith made Bishop of that place after his decease This Coadjutorship was in Oct. 1554 as he saith but how he could succeed the then Bishop who was Dr. Voysey I cannot yet perceive Voysey died in 1555 and Dr. Moreman died at Mayhanet before Oct. 1554. Feb. 1. Fath. Edm. Brycot a Minorite or Franciscan One Brycot was a famous Philosopher of Oxon as his Books shew but his Christian name I think was Thomas This Brycot was the same if I mistake not with Dr. Biycot Parson of Hadham in Hertfordshire in the Reign of Qu. Mary 17. Fr. Tho. Charnocke a Dominican or Black Fryer 24. Rich. Mawdley or Mawdlen Archdeacon of Leicester This person who was a zealous and frequent Preacher against the Lutherans died in 1530 whereupon Steph. Gardiner Dr. of the Civ Law of Cambridge succeeded him in that Archdeaconry in the latter end of March 1531 but he keeping it but till Sept. following was then succeeded in that Dignity by Edw. Fox who was afterwards Bishop of Hereford 24. Will. Mortymer He was soon after Margaret Professor of this University Mar. 15 Rob. Cooke He with Mortymer Moreman and Mawdlen before mention'd were zealous Enemies against the Kings Divorce from Qu. Catherine this year Incorporations Nov. 17. John Hopton a Dominican or Black Fryer D. of D. of the University of Bononia was incorporated by these words spoken by the Commissary from the Chancellour's Chair Pater Johan nos admittimus te incorporamus ad standum in eodem gradu statu quo stetisti Bononiae ac concedimus facultatem legendi disputandi
being a zealous Rom. Catholick suffered much in his Person and Estate for Religion sake and therefore numbred by those of his Profession among the Confessors for the Cause in the time of Qu. Elizabeth Dec. 17. Rich. Mulcaster of Ch. Ch. March 10. Rich. Barnes of Bras Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Durham Admitted 27. Bach. of Physick This year Tho. Cooper M. A. and Master of the Free-School joyning to Magd. Coll. great Gate did supplicate the ven Congregation that whereas he had studied Philosophy 12 years and Physick five he might be admitted to the reading of any Book of the Aphorismes of Hypocrates Which being as it seems granted in Oct did practise Physick in Qu. Maries Reign But when Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown he returned to his Divinity and at length became Bishop of Winchester Bach. of Div. July 23. Tho. Neale of New Coll. 29. Laurence Vaus Vaux or Vaulx sometimes of C. C. Coll. now Warden of the Coll. at Manchester Six Masters of Arts did supplicate this year to be admitted to the same Degree but were not Among them Edmund Daniel lately Fellow of Merton Coll. was one who was now Prebendary of Worcester and Dean of Hereford in the first of which he succeeded Gilb. Bourne and in the other Dr. Hugh Coren or Curwyn In 1559 he was depriv'd of the said Dignities whereupon his Prebendship was bestowed on Rob. Avise M. A. and his Deanery on Joh. Ellis as it seems who in Nov. 1570 became Preb. of Worcester Another who supplicated for that Degree was Nich. Smyth of New Coll. now Fellow of Wykeham's Coll. near Winton and afterwards Fellow of that at Eaton near Windsore Doct. of Civ Law Jul. 8. Reb. Westen of All 's Coll. He had formerly been Principal of Broadgates Hall and Deputy Professor of the Civ Law while he was Bach. of that Faculty for Dr. John Storie but now Dean of the Arches and Chancellour of Exeter Afterwards he became as it seems Dean of Wells and at length one of the Lords Justices of Ireland and for six years Lord Chancellour of that Realm He was so learned judicious and upright in the Court of Judicature all the time that he was Lord Chancellour I speak this from his Epitaph that no Order or Decree that he made was ever questioned or reversed He paid his last debt to Nature 20 May 1573 and was buried in S. Patricks Church at Dublin Over his Grave is a noble Monument yet remaining This Dr. Weston was the only Doctor of his Fac. that was licensed to proceed this year at which time was such a scarcity of Doctors of the Civil Law in the University that there was a dispensation pass'd the House that Tho. Darbyshire an Inceptor in that Faculty might undergo the place of Doctor in the Depositions of the said Dr. Weston ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick or Div. was admitted or licensed to proceed this year Will. Wryght Bac. of Div. and Master of Ball. Coll. did supplicate to proceed but was denied Incorporations June 5. Rich. Mulcaster B. of A. of Cambridge Soon after he took the Degree of Master as I have before told you and at length became a noted Writer of his time Jul. 21. Nicholas Ormanet Doctor of the Civ Law of Padua now one of the prime Visitors appointed by Cardinal Pole Legate à latere to visit this University was then incorporated John Fox in his Book of Acts and Mon. of the Church c. under the year 1557 tells us that he was the Pope's Datary but false for at this time I find him thus written Nich. Ormanettus Patavinus Archipresbyter plebis Bodolesini Viennensis dioc He had been recommended to the Service of the said Cardinal by Pope Julius 3. who had an especial esteem for him and being a Visitor and an haughty person as the Protestants esteem'd him he thought it not fit to be presented and stand bare before the Commissary or Vicechanc for Incorporation and therefore it was agreed upon by the Members of the House that he should be diplomated by vertue of which he was also made Doctor of the Canon Law By some of the reformed Party now 1556 remaining in the University he was esteemed a supercilious man and intolerably arrogant but by the Rom. Cath. severe pious and prudent He afterwards sate in the Council at Trent was made Bish of Padua by Pope Pius 5. an 1570 in which See sitting 7 years died full of praise and in a good old Age. Nov. 12. Arthur Yeldard M. A. of Cambr. He was afterwards made the second President of Trin. Coll. Creations May… John Fekenham sometimes of Glocester Coll. now either Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral or Abbat of Westminster had the Degree of Doct. of Div. confer'd on him without any Exercise performed for the same At the same time he being absent it was granted by the venerable Regents and Non-Regents that either Dr. Will. Cheadsey Dr. John Harpesfield or Dr. Rich. Smyth might carry to and give him the Ensigns or Badges of his Doctorship An. Dom. 1557. An. 4 Mariae An. 5 Mariae Chanc. Card. Reynold Pole Archb. of Canterbury Vicechanc. or Commiss Dr. Tho. Raynolds before mention'd who holding his Office till about 16 Decemb. Tho. Whyte LL. D. and Warden of New Coll. succeeded by vertue of the Chancellours Letters dated 10 of the same month which Office he was to keep no longer than it pleased the Chancellour Proct. Fran. Babyngton of All 's Coll. Will. Allyn again elected 18 Apr. Of the senior Proctor I shall speak among the Doct. of Div. an 1559 of the other I have spoken already among the Writers Bach. of Arts. Oct. 30. Will. Pomerell of New Coll. He was afterwards numbred by his Countrymen of Ireland among the learned men of that Country See more of him in Rich. White among the Writers under the year 1612. pag. 324. Dec. 14. Tho. Gressop of All 's Coll. See among the Masters under the year 1561. John Neale of Exeter Coll. was adm the same day He was elected Rector of his Coll. while he was Bach. of Arts an 1560 such then was the scarcity of Masters in that and other Houses Admit 31. Mast of Arts. July 1. Rob. Newton of Exeter Coll. He was elected Rector of the said house on 17 Oct. following and afterwards became the second perpetual Rector John Wolley of Mert. Coll. was admitted the same day This person who was a Shropshire man born was elected probat Fell. of that House in 1553 and about the time of his proceeding in Arts studied the Civ and Can. Law but took no Degree in either in this University In Nov. or Dec. this year he travelled beyond the Seas where he improved himself much as to Learning knowledge of Men and Manners After the death of Roger Ascham which hapned in 1568 he became Latin Secretary to the Queen and in 1569 he was made Prebendary of Compton-Dundo in the Church of Wells In 1578 he was made Dean
were admitted among whom Laurence Twyne of All 's Coll. was one an ingenious Poet of his time Mast of Arts. Apr. 14. Arthur Atey of Mert. Coll. He was afterwards Orator of the University Principal of St. Albans hall Secretary to that great and popular Count Robert Earl of Leicester and after his death became a favourite to another popular Person called Robert Earl of Essex in whose treasons being engaged in 1600 was forced to abscond and withdraw himself for a time In the beginning of K. James 1. he had the honour of Knighthood conferr'd upon him and dying in 1604 was buried in the Church of Harrow on the hill in Middlesex Jul. 3. Edm. Campian Greg. Martin of St. John Coll. Oct. 20. Tho. Brasbridge Lawr. Tomson Thom. Kingsmill of Magd Coll. Nov. 20. Edm. Raynolds of C. C. Coll. This Person who was a moderate Romanist gained to himself a great name by a publick disputation had with his younger Brother John held before Robert E. of Leycester an 1584. See Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 300. 301. He died 21 Nov. 1630. aged 92 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Wolvercote near Oxon. where he had an estate which he left to his Sisters Son named Matthew Cheriton Esq Feb. 3. Christoph Wharton of Trin. Coll. This Person who was a Yorkshire Man born did soon after leave his Fellowship of that house his Country and Friends and went to Douay where he was made a R. Cath. Priest Afterwards he returned and officiated as a Seminary being esteemed among those of his party a very godly Man At length being taken and imprison'd was for being a R. Cath. Priest and denying the Queens Supremacy executed at York 28. March 1600. 14. Edm. Bunney of Magd. soon after of Mert. Coll. Admitted 39. ☞ Not one Bach. of Div. was adm this year Doct. of Civ Law Feb. 14. John Lloyd of All 's Coll. He was about this time Judge of the Admiralty Rob. Lougher commonly called Loffer of All 's Coll. was admitted on the same day He was now Principal of New Inn was soon after the Queens Professor of the Civil Law and Chancellour of Exeter In May 1577 he was constituted Official of the Consistory of Edwin Archb. of York and his Vicar General in spirituals being then a Civilian belonging to the Arches He died in the beginning of June 1583 leaving behind him a Son named John ☞ Not one Doct. of Phys or Div. was admitted this year Incorporations Feb. 20. Rob. Johnson M. A. of Cambridge was then incorporated being the very next day after the Act had been celebrated This Rob. Johnson who was Son of Maurice Johnson Alderman of Stanford in Lincolnshire was afterwards Bach. of Div. and twice made Prebendary of Rochester which he twice resign'd In 1570 he was installed Prebendary of Norwych which Dignity he resigning Griffith Toy M. A. of Jes Coll. in Oxon succeeded an 1575. In 1572 he became Canon of Windsore in the place of Joh. Browne Bac. of Div. and in 1591 he was made Archdeacon of Leycester in the place of Hugh Blythe Can. of Windsore resigning being about that time honorary Fellow of Jesus Coll. in Oxon. He founded two Grammar Schools in Rutlandshire one at Vphingham and another at Okeham two Hospitals also in the same County which he endowed four exhibitioners in Sydney Coll. in Cambridge to come from the said Free-schools and was a benefactor to the weekly Preachers at St. Pauls Cross in London He died on the first of Aug. 1625 being then or lately Rector of N. Luffenham in Rutlandshire In 1560 one Edm. Johnson Schoolmaster of St. Anthonies in London became Canon of Windsore and then by little and little as one observes followed the spoil of St. Authonies Hospital He first dissolved the choire conveyed away the plate and ornaments then the bells and lastly put out the Almes-men from their houses allowing them portions of 12 d. per week which also in short time vanished away This I thought good to let the reader know because the Author here quoted having reported these matters to be done by one Johnson have caused some to think them done by Reb. Johnson beforemention'd Creations Feb… Thom. Yong Archbishop of York who was admitted Bachelaur of the Civil Law an 1537 being then of Broadgates hall was by power granted by the ven Congregation of Regents 13. Feb. this year actually created soon after at London as it seems Doctor of his faculty by Dr. Dav. Lewes and Doctor Tho Huyck An. Dom. 1565. An. 7 8 Elizab. Chanc. the same viz. Rob. Dudley Earl of Leycester c. Commiss Dr. Kernnall elected by scrutiny in a Convocation on the 25. Feb. Proct. Thom. Garbrand alias Herks of Magd. Coll. John Merick of New Coll. elect 2. Mar. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 7. Christoph Perkins In what Coll. or Hall this Person was educated I know not Sure I am that he leaving the University abruptly without compleating his Degree by Determination went beyond the Seas and having spent some time in one of the new erected Seminaries entred into the society of Jesus and lived among them in good repute for his learning At length upon the coming to Rome under the name of a Traveller of Mr. William Cecill afterwards Earl of Exeter Grandson to Will Lord Burleigh there were whisperings in the English Coll. of doing him some mischief in revenge for what his Grandfather had done in apprehending several Priests and putting them to death yet they came to nothing Whereupon Perkins possessed him with fears and took upon him to direct him what to do and how tobehave himself And when Mr. Cecill had seen Rome and the Monuments thereof Perkins did conduct him out of the City and being a Man of a very great understanding and Mr. Cecill therefore delighting much in his company he perswaded him to accompany him to England Afterwards they came together and Mr. Cecill recommending him to his Grandfather for a wise understanding Man and one that had taken much care of him at his being in Rome and withal having been a Jesuit he was now reconciled to the Church of England the Lord Burleigh did thereupon precure for him the Deanery of Carlile which had been before possess'd by Sir John Wolley and about the same time procured of the Queen that he should be employed into Germany to make answer in the Queens name to the complaints of the Hanse-towns about their customes to the Emperour an 1595. After his return tho it was the desire of the said Lord Burleigh that he should live at Carlile and follow the Ministry and nothing else yet he lived in London and being brought into the acquaintance of Dr. Bancroft Bishop of that place that Doctor did make use of him both for his discovery beyond the Seas and likewise upon other occasions In 1600 he with the said Doctor and Joh. Swale were as Delegates or Embassadors sent by the Queen to Embden to parley
learned Gentleman a man of excellent wit and fluent eloquence It is observed that tho he was not respected by Qu. Elizabeth yet he wrot a learned Book entit An apology for the government of Women which is in MS in Bodley's Library given thereunto by Ralph Radcliff Town Clerk of Oxon 1621. He was afterwards for his great Learning and Prudence so much esteemed by K. Jam. 1. that he was by him advanced to great places and honours among which was the Earldom of Northampton and dying 15 June 1614 was buried in the Church or Chappel belonging to Dover Castle he having been Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports In his life time he published a Book entit A defensative against the poison of supposed Prophecies Lond. 1583 afterwards revised and published in 1620. fol. In 1609 he succeeded John Lord Lumley in the High Stewardship of this University May…Elize Bomlie Doct. of Phys of Cambridge Jul. 13. Will. Livyng Bach. of Div. of the same University Leonard Cassembrotus or Cassenbrotius LL. D. of Orleans was incorporated the same day He was descended from Leon. Cassenbrotius a learned man of Bruges who lived in the time of Erasmus Roterd. Creations Apr. 19. Thom. Haward or Howard Duke of Norfolk Knight of the Order of the Garter and Earl Marshal of England was actually created Master of Arts in a certain Chamber where he lodged in the house of Thom. Furse commonly called the Beare Inn in Allsaints Parish He was beheaded on Tower hill 2 June 15 Eliz. for endeavouring to marry Mary Qu. of Scots without leave or license from Qu. Eliz. Aug. 2. Sir Henry Sidney Knight of the Garter and Lord Deputy of Ireland was created Master of Arts in the place where he lodged in Ch. Ch. I think in the Deans Lodgings at which time he solemnly promised to observe the Privileges and Liberties of the University I have made large mention of him among the Writers p. 180. nu 232. An. Dom. 1569. An. 11 Elizab. An. 12 Elizab. Chanc. the same Commiss the same viz. Dr. Thom. Cooper now Dean of Glocester but upon what account whether by a new Election made by the Masters his Office was prorogued it appears not At this time the Chancellour took upon him to nominate the Commissary which now began to be called Vicechancellour meerly by the great power he took upon himself Proct. Thom. Bereblock of Ex. Coll. Thom. Bodley of Mert. Coll. Apr. 20. Bach. of Arts. Dec. 1. Henry Holland of S. John 's Coll. Jonas Meredith of the same Coll. was admitted on the same day He was a Bristow man born was afterwards a R. Cath. Priest and a Prisoner in Wisbich Castle in Cambridgeshire for stifly defending the Jurisdiction of the Pope He was expelled S. John's Coll super statutum quod tueretur Reum so are the words in the Register belonging to that house and as 't is supposed did afterwards publish certain matters in defence of his Religion Jan… Hen. Cotton of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Exeter Mar. 11. Joh. Rogers of Mert. Coll. Admit 92. Mast of Arts. Jul. 11. George Coryat of New 8. John Smith of S. Joh. Oct. 21. Tho. Doylie of Magd. Coll. Nov. 21. John Howlet of Exet. Coll. He left his Fellowship of the said house before he stood in the Act to compleat his Degree went beyond the Seas was made a Jesuit and had one or more Books put out under his name See among the Writers in Rob. Person under the year 1610. p. 306. Adm. 36. Bach. of Div. But two admitted Philip Biss being one whom I shall mention in 1580 and two that supplicated of whom Joh. Watkyns of All 's Coll. Son of Watkin Howell was one He was afterwards Dean of Hereford in the place as it seems of Joh. Ellis and died in the month of May 1594. Doct. of Civ Law Jul. 6. Arthur Bedell of Christ Church He was a very learned Civilian of his time Doct. of Physick Nov. 21. Thomas Jesopp of Mert. Coll. He died at Gillyngham in Dorsetshire about the beginning of 1616 having been before a Benefactor to his College Doct. of Div. Jul. 14. Will. Hughes mention'd in the Incorporations an 1568. was admitted or licensed to proceed in Divinity Jan. 16. Thom. Bickley Warden of Merton Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Chichester An. Dom. 1570. An. 12 Elizab. An. 13 Elizab. Chanc. the same viz. Robert Earl of Leicester Commiss Dr. Cooper designed to that Office as the rest of his Successours were by Letters from the Chancellour dated May 5. He became Bish of Lincoln about the latter end of this year Proct. Arth. Atie of Mert. Coll. Tho. Glasier of Ch. Ch. Apr. 5. Bach. of Arts. May 30. Rob. Temple See among the Bach. of Div. under the year 1588. June 25. Thom. White of Magd. Hall Oct. 17. Thom. Worthington of Brasn 23. Tho. Sparke of Magd. Nov. 15. Rich. Turnbull of C. C. Dec. 9. Thom. Holland of Ball. Coll. 13. Simon Wisdome of Gloc. Hall Jan. 29. Job Field In the month of June Will. Camden supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Arts having spent four years in the University in Logicals but was not admitted See in the years 1573 and 1588. Adm. 119. Bach. of Civ Law Apr. 26. Will. Say of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Chancellour of Winchester Nov. 24. Hugh Lloyd of New Coll. Dec. 5. Randal Catherall After he had left the University he setled in an obscure Village called Oddington alias Addington near to Bister in Oxfordshire where by a natural Genie advanced with great Industry he became an eminent and expert Antiquary His voluminous Collections from divers Leiger books concerning Monasteries especially in these parts and of Genealogies and Heraldry were much used by Dr. Robert Sanderson afterwards Bish of Lincoln who did transcribe many things from them for his use which I have seen But where those Collections are now I cannot yet learn This Mr. Catherall who was descended from those of his name living at Horton in Cheshire was buried in a little Vault under the Chancel of the Parish Church of Oddington before mention'd 9 June 1625. Admitted 9. Mast of Arts. Apr. 8. Cuthbert Mayne of S. John's Coll. Soon after he left the Nation went to Doway in 1572 and was promoted there to the degree of Bach. of Divinity Afterwards he was sent into the mission of England and setled for a time in his native Country of Devonshire In 1577 he was taken and on the 29 of Nov. the same year he was hang'd drawn and quarter'd at Lanceston in Cornwal being then accounted by those of his Profession the first Martyr of the Seminaries You may read more of him in Cardinal Alans book called A sincere and modest defence c. or An answer to a libel of English justice c. p. 2. also in Camdens Annals of Qu. Eliz. under the year 1571. Henr. Shaw of the same Coll. was admitted on the same day He afterwards went beyond
raised by the Long Parl. against K. Ch. 1. was cast out of his Benefice of Austie by the Committee of Religion in 1643 as you may see in that diabolical Pamphlet entit The first Century of scandalous and malignant Priests c. pr. 1643. qu. p. 13. and lost other Spiritualities The said Dr. Tho. Mountfort had also another Son named James who succeeded his Father as it seems in the Rectory of Tewing before mention'd who also being a zealous man for the Church of England was thrown out of Tewing by the said Committee as you may see in the said Phmphlet p. 10. Jul. 4. Thom. Pye of Mert. 9. John Prime of New Coll. Incorporations Apr. 11. Rob. Devereux Earl of Essex and Master of the Horse to Queen Elizabeth was incorporated M. of A. as he had stood at Cambridge being then accounted one of the best Poets among the Nobility of England and a person adorned with singular gifts of Nature This Incorporation was the better to capacitate him to be Chancellour of this University when that honourable Office should become void as it shortly after did He had received his Academical Education in Trinity Coll. in Cambridge under the tuition of Dr. John Whitgift afterwards Archb. of Canterbury and hath written 1 Advice to Reger Earl of Rutland in his travels MS. the beginning of which is My Lord I hold it a principle in the course c. This MS. which I have in my Library was if I am not mistaken printed in a Book entit Profitable instructions describing what special observations are to be taken by Travellers in all Nations Lond. 1633. oct said in the title to be written by Robert Earl of Essex Sir Philip Sidney c. 2 His apology against those which falsly and malitiously tax him to be the only hinderer of the peace and quiet of his Country written to Sir Anth. Bacon which piece had such esteem among men that they thought that nothing could be more honourably utter'd nor more to the Writers praise so far as belongs to a noble Orator than it 3 Letters to Qu. Elizabeth and Lord Howard c. MS. in bib Bod. 4 His speech and prayer at the time of his Execution printed at the end of Dr. Will. Barlow's Sermon preached at Pauls Cross 1 Mar. 1600. Lond. 1601. oct with other things which I have not yet seen He left behind him when beheaded in 1600 a Son of both his names educated in this University whom I shall mention elsewhere Apr. 11. Abraham Hartwell M. of A. of Cambr. was also then incorporated He was Fellow of Kings Coll. in that University afterwards Amanuensis to John Archb. of Canterbury a Traveller and at length Rector of Tuddyngton in Bedfordshire He hath written 1 Regina literata seu narratio de regina Elizabetha carmine Lond. 1565. oct 2 Report of the Kingdom of Conge a region in Africa printed 1597 qu. and translated from french into English 4 A true discourse upon the matter of Martha Brossier of Romantin pretended to be possessed by a Devil Lond. 1599. qu. See another Translation made by him in Walt. Haddon mention'd in these Fasti an 1552. July… Robert Green M. A. of Cambridge was also then incorporated He was at this time a pastoral Sonnet-maker and Author of several things which were pleasing to Men and Women of his time They made much sport and were valued among Scholars but since they have been mostly sold on Ballad-mongers stalls The Titles of some of them are these 1 Euphues his censure to Philautas Lond. 1587. qu. 2 A quip for an upstart Courtier or a dispute between Velvet breeches and Cloth breeches Lond. 1592. qu. 3 His mourning Garment given him by repentance at the funerals of Love One Edition of this book was printed at Lond. 1616. qu. 4 His groats worth of wit bought with a million of repentance c. Lond. 1617. qu. second Edit The first Edit was printed after his death and hath at the end of it his Epitaph in six Stanzaes 5 Theeâ—â—s falling out true men come by their goods or the Belman Lady Fitzwaters Nightingale Several times printed 7 His nusquam sera est or a treatise deciphering those particular vanities that hinder youthful Gentlemen from attaining to their intended perfections Several times printed 8 The history of Frier Bacon and Frier Bungay 9 Greens Ghost haunting Cunny Catchers One Ed. of which was printed at Lond. 1626. qu. Other trifles he hath extant which he wrot to maintain his Wife and that high and loose course of living which Poets generally follow He assisted also Thom. Ledge in the composure of several Plays as I have told you in my discourse of that person among the Writers under the year 1625. He wrot against or at least reflected upon Gabriel Harvey in several of his Writings whereupon Harvey being not able to bear his Abuses did inhumanely trample upon him when he lied full low in his grave even as Achilles tortured the dead body of Hector This R. Green died about 1592 of a Surfeit taken by eating pickled Herrings and drinking with them Rhenish Wine At which fatal Banquer Tom. Nash his Contemporary in Cambridge was present who in his Apology of Pierce Penniless doth make excellent sport with him and some of his Works I have seen a witty Comedy called Greens Tu quoque or the City Gallant not pen'd by the said Green but by one John Cook Gent. published by Thomas Heyword an 1622. and another entit Planetomachia or The first part of the general opposition of the seven Planets c. Lond. 1585. qu. said in the Title to be written by R. Green but whether the same R. Green the Poet I cannot tell On the eleventh day of the said month of July supplicated to be incorporated one Joh. Osbourne Doct. of Physick of Leyden whose Grace being granted simpliciter I therefore think that he obtained his Option Creations When Robert Earl of Essex was incorporated these persons following who had formerly been partly educated in this University were actually created Masters of Arts Apr. 11. Which Creation was usually called the Essexian Creation because done upon his account Thomas Lord Clinton Son of the Earl of Lincoln Sir John Norris Kt. President of Mounster in Ireland second Son of Henry the first Lord Norris and one now celebrated among the famous Captains of our Nation He died discontented as being not rewarded according to his worth an 1597 or thereabouts Sir Robert Sidney Kt younger Brother to Sir Philip Sidney This Sir R. Sidney was afterwards the first Earl of Leycester of his name who dying at Penshurst in Kent 13 July 1626 was there buried Sir Hen. Norris Kt. younger Brother to Sir John before mention'd who died of a wound about the same time and place that his Brother Sir Thomas did which Sir Tho. was also President of Mounster Sir Philip Boteler Kt. Rob. Carew Fulke Grevil Francis Darcie Esquires Of Fulke Grevil who was afterwards Lord
Brook I have spoken at large among the Writers under the year 1628. An. Dom. 1589. An. 31 Elizab. An. 32 Elizab. Chanc. Sir Christoph Hatton Kt. who by the death of Robert Dudley Earl of Leycester became also High Steward of the Univ. of Cambridge Vicechanc. Nich. Bond D. D. President of Magd. Coll. Jul. 16. Proct. John Harding of Magd. Coll. John King of Ch. Ch. Apr. 29. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 12. Will. Thorne of New Coll. June 25. Sebast Benefeild of C. C. Coll. July 12. George Benson of Queens Coll. See more among the Doctors of Div. an 1607. Nov. 5. Clem. Edmonds of All 's Coll. Dec. 1. Tho. Frith of Magd. Hall afterwards of All 's Coll. See among the Bachelaurs of Divin 1605. 17. Edmund Griffyth of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Bangor Feb. 11. John Tapsell See among the Doct. of Div. 1617. Adm. 104. Bach. of Law June 30. Will. Gager July 6. John Bennet of Ch. Ch. See more among the Doctors of the Civ Law this year In the month of April this year Edwyn Sandys of C. C. Coll. did supplicate for the degree of Bach. of Law but was not admitted Adm. 10. Mast of Arts. June 9. George Warwick of Qu. Coll. He was afterwards Archdeacon of Carlile in the place as I suppose of Hen. Dethick 18. Christoph Sutton of Linc. 21. Griffith Powell of Jes Coll. 27. John Budden of Gloc. Hall lately of Trin. Coll. July 4. Rich. Brett Joh. Randall of Linc. Coll. 11. George Cranmer Dec. 5. Alexand. Gill. of C. C. Coll. Adm. 74. Bach. of Phys Nov. 4. John Case the noted Philosopher of S. Johns Coll. Besides him was only one admitted and another licensed to practise Medecine Bach. of Div. July 6. Thomas Ravis of Ch. Ch. Mar. 21. Giles Tomson of All 's John Spenser of C. C. Coll. Adm. 8. Doct. of Law Apr. 30. Hen. Manning of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Chancellour of the Dioc. of Exet. and died in 1614. Jun. 30. Will. Gager of Ch. Ch. He accumulated the Degrees in the Civ Law Joh. Estmond of New Coll. was admitted the same day He was now Principal of Nâ—w Inn. Jul. 6. John Bennet of Ch. Ch. He was lately one of the Proctors of the University afterwards Vicar Gen. in Spirituals to the Archb. of York Prebendary of Langtoft in the Church of York Chancellour to Qu. Anne a Knight and Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury In the beginning of 1617 he was sent Embassadour to Bruxelis to question the Archduke in behalf of his Master the King of Great Britain concerning a late famous Libel wrot and published as 't was supposed by Erycius Puteanus who neither apprehended the Author nor suppressed the Book untill he was sollicited by the Kings Agent there only interdicted it and suffered the Author to fly his Dominions Afterwards in 1621 the said Sir Joh. Bennet was for bribery corruption and exaction in his place of Judge of the Prerogative first committed to custody to the Sheriff of London then to prison afterwards fined 20000 l. and at length deprived of his place of Judicature till such time that he had restored what he had unjustly taken away He died in the Parish of Christ Church in London in the beginning of 1627 and was buried I suppose in the Church there July 11. Thomas Crompton M. A. of Merton Coll. His Grace had before been denied because he was suspected to have something of a Papist in him but afterwards making a protestation of his Religion according to the Church of England in a solemn Congregation of Regents he was permitted then July 11. to proceed He was afterwards a Knight Judge of the Court of Admiralty and one of the first Burgesses that the Members of this University chose to sit in after they had been impowr'd to send them to Parliament He died in the latter end of 1608 having before as I conceive been engaged in the Earl of Essex his Treasons Doct. of Phys June 30. John Bentley of Ch. Church Nov. 4. Joh. Case of S. Johns Coll. Both which accumulated the Degrees in Physick and were learned men Doct. of Div. July 6. Rich. Eedes of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Dean of Worcester as I have before told you among the Writers Creations June 16. Sir Charles Blount Kt. He was originally of this University was afterwards Earl of Devonshire and dying in 1606 left behind him a natural Son named Montjoy Blount created Earl of Newport in the Isle of Wight by K. Charles I. which Montjoy dying in S. Aldates Parish in Oxon. 12 Feb. 1665 was buried in the south Isle joyning to the Choire of the Cathedral of Ch. Church near to the Grave of Will Lord Grandison the King with his Court having about that time left Oxon to which place he before had retired to avoid the Plague raging in London Sir Charles Danvers Kt. was actually created M. A. the same day He was afterwards beheaded on Tower hill near London for being deeply engaged in the Earl of Essex's Treasons an 1601. Sept. 17. Ferdinando Lord Strange He was soon after Earl of Derby and dying in the flower of his Youth not without suspicion of poyson on the 16 of Apr. 1594 having enjoyed his Earldom but for a little time was buried near to the body of his Father in a Chappel joyning to the Church of Ormeskirke in Lancashire Sept. 17. Sir George Carew Kt. He was afterwards Earl of Totness Sir John Spencer of Althorp in Northamptonshire Kt. All which were actually created Masters of Arts. An. Dom. 1590. 32 Elizab. 33 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Will. James D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. Jul. 16 who in 1581 had undergone the same Office Proct. Jasp Colmer of Mert. Coll. Jeh Evelegh of Exet. Coll. Apr. 29. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 13. Tho. Bastard of New Jul. 9. Joh. Davies of Queens Coll. George Carew of Exeter Coll. was admitted the same day Quaere Dec. 14. Thom. Cooper or Couper of Ch. Ch. See among the Bach. of Div. 1600. Feb. 5. Sam. Page Rob. Burhill Joh. Barcham of C. C. Coll. The two last I shall mention among the Writers in the second Volume Feb. 5. Mathew Lister Lionel Day of Oriel Coll. Of the first you may see more among the Incorporations an 1605 and of the other who was originally of S. Albans Hall among the Bach. of Div. 1608. 10. Lancelot Bulkley of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards Archbishop of Dublin in Ireland Adm. 133. Bach. of Law May 2. John Owen of New Coll. the Epigrammatist Feb. 2. Ralph Winwood of Magd. Coll. This person whom I have mention'd among the Masters in 1587 was Proctor of the University two years after and travelling beyond the Seas return'd an accomplish'd Gentleman In 1607 June 28. he received the honor of Knighthood at Richmond was sent Embassadour into the Low Countries soon after made Secretary of State 29 Mar. 1614 being the very day that Sir Tho. Lake was
Or. 31. Joh. Prideaux of Exeter Coll. The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Worcester Feb. 2. Joh. Meredyth of St. Maries hall lately of Oriel Coll. He was the eldest Son of an Esquire of Sussex but whether the same with Joh. Meredyth who was afterwards Doct. of Phys of another University and at length Subdean of Chichester an 1622. which he resigned 10. Oct. 1627 and retired to his cure of Bedhampton in Hampshire where heart-broken and purse-broken he soon after died I know not Sure it is that John Meredyth who was Subdean of Chichester wrot and published 1 The sin of blasphemy against the Holy Ghost on Heb. 10. 16. Lond. 1622. qu. 2 The judge of heresies one God one Faith one Church out of which there is no salvation Lond. 1624. qu. As for Potter Duck Hakewill Twyne Parsons and Prideaux their lives and characters are to come into the second vol. of this work Admitted 111. Bach. of Law Jul. 2. George Russell of St. Johns Coll. This Person who was a Londoner born was afterwards Bursar of the said house but retaining in his hands the College money which he received as Bursar without paying it to the Persons who supplied it with necessaries slip'd away incognito went beyond the Seas changed his Religion and became Pensioner to the Archduke of Austria and a Man of note in his Dominions Philipp Cromwell of St. Johns Coll. was admitted the same day He was the fifth Son of Sir Hen Cromwell of Hâ—nchingbroâ—k in Huntingdonshire Uncle to Oliver Cromwell sometimes Lord Protector of England This Philip Cromwell who was a Knight was Father by Mary his Wife Dau. of Sir Hen. Townsend Knight to Thomas Cromwell a Major of a Regiment of Horse under K. Ch. 1. in the time of the grand rebellion and to Oliver Cromwell a Colonel under his Kinsman Oliver Cromwell beforemention'd when he went as General into Ireland to quell the Royal Party an 1649 in which year he died and to Philip Cromwell a Commander in the Parliament Army slain at Bristow Adm. 7. Mast of Arts. May 21. Joh. Bancroft Joh. Sprint of Ch. Ch. Joh. Rawlinson of St. Johns Coll. was admitted the same day Jul. 5. George Andrew of Magd. hall He was afterwards a Bishop in Ireland as I have before told you Jan. 17. Josias White of New Coll. Adm. 73. Bach. of Div. June 14. Edm. Griffith of Brasn Coll. Jul. 5. Rich. Eaton of Linc. Coll. He was about this time Pastor of Great Budworth in Cheshire in which County he was born and hath published A Sermon at the funeral of Tho. Dutton of Dutton Esque who yeilded to nature 28. Dec. 1615 on Psal 90. ver 12. Lond. 1616. qu. and perhaps other things Quaere Adm. 5. Doct. of Law Jun. 23. Barthelm Jesop of Magd. Coll. This Person who was fourth Son of Walt. Jesop of Chilcombe in Dorsetsh Gent. was a learned Civilian and about this time Chancellour to the Bishop of Sarum He lived and died a single Man 21. July 1620 and was buried in Christ Church near Newgate in London 27. Zachar. Babington of Mert. Coll. who accumulated He was about this time Chancellour to the Bishop of Lich. and Coventry and died 1614 or thereabouts Jul. 6. Edmund Pope of Alâ—souls Coll. He was about this time Chancellour to the Bishop of Rochester and afterwards Surrogate to the Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury He died in the Parish of St. Botolph without Aldersgate London an 1630. James Baylic of All 's Coll. also admitted the same day being about this time Chancellour to the Bish of Hereford ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul. 2. George Ryves of New Coll. Prebendary of Winchester In Dec. following he was elected Warden of the said Coll. and dying on the last of May 1613 was buried as I conceive in the Chappel belonging thereunto 6. Giles Robinson of Queens Coll. Incorporations July 5. â—eonard Maw M. A. of Cambridge He was Fellow of Peter house and afterwards Master thereof Master of Trin. College Prebendary of Wells Doct. of Div. Chaplain to Pr. Charles on whom he waited when he was in Spain to Court the Infanta and at length Bish of B. and Wells upon the translation of Dr. Laud to London but enjoying that office for a little while died at Chiswick in Middlesex 2. Sept. 1629 whereupon his body was buried there on the 16 day of the same month He was the Son of Sim. Maw of Wrendlesham in Suffolk Gent. by Margery his Wife Dau. and Coheir of Thom. Wyld of Yorkshire and Alice his Wife Dau. and Heir of Joh. Jaye of Suffolk Robert Tounson M. of A. of the said University was incorporated on the same day He was about this time Fellow of Queens Coll. there was afterwards Doctor of Divinity Dean of Westminster in the place of Dr. George Mountaigne promoted to the See of Lincolne an 1617 and at length Bishop of Salisbury to which See he was consecrated at Lambeth by the Archbishop and his Assistants Lincolne Rochester and Chester on the 9 of July 1620. He died in a mean condition on the 15 of May 1621 and was buried on the South side of the long isle over against St. Edmunds Chappel in St. Peters Church within the City of Westminster leaving then behind him a Widow named Margaret and fifteen Children After him succeeded in the See of Salisbury Dr. John Davenant the Head or Master of Queens Coll. in and Margaret Professor of the University of Cambridge who was consecrated on the 18. of Nov. 1621 having received a command from the King that he should not take to him a Wife He departed this mortal life on the 20 of Apr. 1641 and was buried in the South isle joyning to the Cath. Ch. of Salisbury Hen. Butts M. of A. and Fellow of Corp. Ch. Coll. in Cambridge was incorporated also on the same day Jul. 5. and afterwards succeeded Dr. Sam. Walsall in the Headship of that House He hath written Diets dry dinner consisting of eight several courses 1 Fruits c. Lond. 1599. oct See more of this Hen. Butts in Dan. Price among the Writers an 1631. Jul. 10. Peter Turner Doct. of Phys of Heidleberg 28 years before this time afterwards incorporated at Cambridge where he had his first education was incorporated in this University as he had stood at Heidleberg and Cambridge He was the Son of Dr. Will. Turner sometimes Dean of Wells whom I have mention'd among the Writers under the year 1568 and dying on the 27 of May 1614 aged 72 years was buried in the Chancel of the Church of St. Olaves in Hartstreet London leaving then behind him several Sons of whom Samuel was one and Peter another as I shall tell you elsewhere One Mistress Anne Turner the Widow of a Doctor of Physick had an especial hand in the poysoning of Sir Tho. Overbury for which she was executed at Tybourne an 1615. whether she was the second Wife
and Widow of this Dr. Peter Turner I know not Oct. 30. Rich. Pilkington M. of A. of Cambridge Creations June…Hen Cotton Bishop of Salisbury sometimes Master of Arts of Magd. Coll. was actually created Doctor of Divinity at Salisbury by Dr. Edm. Lillye Vicechancellour Dr. Tho. Holland the Kings Professor of Divinity and both the Proctors with the Superior Beadle of Divinity attending them by virtue of a Commission from the Vicechancellour dated 2 of June 1599. An. Dom. 1600. An. 42 Elizab. An. 43 Elizab. Chanc. the same viz. Tho. Lord Buckhurst Vicechanc. George Abbot D. D. Master of Vniv. Coll. Jul. 15. Proct. Nich. Langford of Ch. Ch. Laur. Humphrey Son of Laur. of Magd. Coll. Apr. 2. Bach. of Musick Jul… Henry Porter of Ch. Ch. Some of his compositions I have seen but none of them I think are extant He was Father to Walt. Porter sometimes Gentleman of the royal Chappel of King Ch. 1. and Master of the Choristers at Westminster author of Mottets of two voyces for Treble or Tenor and Bass c. to be performed to an Organ Harpsycon Lute or Bass-viol Lond. 1657. fol. The words of some of the Mottets are taken out of the learned Poet George Sandys his Paraphrase on the Psalmes of David This Person who had been patroniz'd in his endeavours by Sir Edw. Spencer was after his ejectment from his office in the beginning of the grand rebellion exhibited to in his old age by Edw. Laurence Esq Bach. of Arts. Jun. 5. Rob. Harris of Magd. hall 17. Rob. Mandevill of Qu. Coll. Jul. 4. David Jenkins of St. Edm. hall Afterwards the famous Welsh Judge 7 Humph. Lynd Will. Piers of Ch. Ch. The last of which was afterwards Bish of B. and Wells 10. Joh. Dunster of Magd. Oct. 14. Will. Twysse of New Dec. 4. Isaac Singleton of Brasn Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Masters an 1604. Dec. 11. George Browne of St. Joh. Coll. He soon after changed his Religion went beyond the Seas and I think was made a R. Cath. Priest Feb. 8. Dabridgcourt Belchier of Ch. Ch. This Person who was the eldest Son of Will. Belcher of Gillesborough in Northamptonshire Esque translated into English Hans Beer-pot his visible Comedy of see me and see me not Acted in the Low-countries by an honest company of Health-drinkers Lond. 1618. qu. Which translation was made at Vtrecht in 1617 about which time he wrot several Poems and made other translations but whether publish'd I cannot tell He died in the Low-countries in 1621. As for Rob. Harris D. Jenkins Will. Piers and Will. Twysse will be large mention made in the second vol. of Writers and Bishops Adm. 115. Mast of Arts. Apr. 5. Joh. Hanmer Rich. Moket of All 's Coll. Jun. 4. Theoph. Higgons of Ch. Ch. 14. Will. Loe of St. Alb. 10. Degorie Wheare of Broadg. hall 17. Aegeon Askew Rog. Mathew of Qu. Coll. The last of which who was a Warwickshire Man born hath published The flight of time on Job 9. 25. printed 1634. qu. and perhaps other things July 4. Joh. Denison of Ball. Coll. Charles Fitz-Geffry of Broadgates hall 8. Theodore Goulson of Mert. 11. Rob. Vilvaine of Exet. Coll. 12. Dudley Carleton of Ch. Ch. Jan. 16. Joh. White of New Coll. Adm. 89. Bach. of Div. Apr. 14. Edw. Gee of Brasn Coll. Thom. Cooper of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day He was a Londoner born became Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm School an 1586 was about this time beneficed at or near Oundle in Northamptonshire and was Author of The Worldlings adventure c. in two Sermons at the visitation of the Free Grammar School at Oundle in Northamptonshire on Matth. 16. 26. Lond. 1619. qu. One of both his names and an Oxford Man was Author of Nonae Novembris aeternitati consecratae c. Oxon 1607. qu. written in verse and prose but whether by the former Tho. Cooper I cannot justly say because he doth not write himself in the title Bach. of Div. as in the former book Besides these two Tho. Coopers were two more of the same time also and Writers besides Tho. Cooper B. of Winchester but whether both of them were of Oxon I cannot tell June 27. Rich. Pilkington of Qu. Jul. 16. Will. Thorne of New Dec. 14. Sebastian Benefield of C. C. Coll. Admitted 44. Doct. of Law Feb. 4. Jam. Hussee of New Coll. He was afterwards Principal of Magd. hall Chancellour to the B. of Salisbury a Knight by the favour of K. Jam. 1. and dying at Oxford of the plague on the eleventh of July 1625 was buried late at night without any solemnity or company only by two that carried his Corps in the Chancel of St. Maries Church in Oxon. ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Apr. 14. Leonard Hutten of Ch. Ch. Jun. 17. Hen. Airay John Aglionby of Qu. Coll. Jul. 7. Rich. Brooke Nathan Dod compounders of Ch. Ch. 10. Rob. Tinley of Magd. Coll. Incorporations Jul. 4. John Bridgman M. of A. of Cambridge He was afterwards D. of D. Master of Magd. Coll. in that University Chaplain to K. Jam. 1. by whose favour he became Rector of the rich Church of Wigan in Lancashire in January 1615 Bishop of Chester in 1618. and in June 1621 Rector of Bangor which he held in Commend with his Bishoprick He was Father to Sir Orlando Bridgman Knight and Bt. sometimes Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and a sufferer in some measure for the cause of his Maj. K. Ch. 1. He died in Teddington or Tuddington in Middlesex in in Summer time 1674. 9. Gedeon da Man or Montmartin Son of a Noble Man and Master of Arts of Cambridge Wolfgangus Mayer M. A. of the said University was incorporated on the same day He was Grandson by the Mothers side to Martin Bucer 10. Jerem. Ratcliffe D. D. of Cambridge John Downe Bach. of Div. of the said University was incorporated the same day He was educated in Emanuel College the members of which presented him to the Vicaridge of Winsford in Somersetshire where he continued for a while Afterwards he became Rector of Instow in Devonshire where he died and was buried about 1631. Ten of his Treatises the first of which is A Treatise concerning the force and efficacy of reading were published after his death by Dr. George Hakewill his neighbour Oxon. 1633. qu. with a funeral Sermon before them preached by the said Doctor containing many things in behalf of the Author and the said Treatises as also an Epiâ—â—le by Dr. Hall Bishop of Exon wherein are several Encomiums of the Author 11. Will. Paddie Doct. of Phys of Leyden He stands in the publick register as twice incorporated see in the year 1591. He was esteem'd one of the prime Physicians of his time and was highly valued by the chief Men of his faculty especially by Sir Theodore de Mayerne He gave way to fate in Decemb. 1634. and was buried in St. Johns Coll.
very uncouth Language to a Princes ears the particulars of which you may see elsewhere For the Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 he was elected again for the same place but being soon after fully satisfied what desperate courses the Members thereof took he left them and retiring to his Majesty at Oxon sate in the Parliament there 1643 and so consequently was a shater of Sufferings then incident to Royalists I have seen divers of his Speeches in MS. but whether made publick I cannot tell He died in 1647 or thereabouts leaving then behind a natural Son of both his names and the character of a man of very loose principles Adm. 65. Bach. of Div. Jul. 6. Will. Laud of S. Johns Coll. Jan. 18. John Burbadge of Linc. Coll. a rich Dignitary in the Church He was nearly related to Rich. Burbadge of the Parish of S. Leonard in Shoreditch near London which Richard who is stiled by the learned Camden to have been alter Roscius died 9 March 1618. Feb. 22. Robert Wakeman of Balliol Coll. On the second day of March this year Gabriel Powell Bach. of Arts of S. Maries Hall who had studied Divinity nine years supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Div. but whether his desire was granted it appears not I have made large mention of him among the Writers under the year 1607. Adm. 12. ☞ Not one Doct. of Law Phys or Divinity was admitted this year Incorporations July 10. Rob. Hill Bach. of Div. of Christs Coll. in Cambr. He was about this time Parson of S. Barthelmew near to the Exchange in London was afterwards D. of D. and always esteemed a learned man and a good and painful Preacher He hath written 1 Life everlasting or the true knowledge of one Jehovah Cambr. 1601. oct 2 The path way to prayer and piety c. Lond. 1613. oct 3 A Communicant instructed c. printed 1617. oct with an Exposition on the Lords Prayer and other things which I have not yet seen See more among the Incorporations an 1598. This Dr. Hill died in 1623 and was buried near to the Body of his Wife in the Chancel of the Church of S. Barthelmew before mention'd One Rob. Hill was Parson of Tredington in the Dioc. of Worcester an 1604 but him I take to be different from the former I find only five Masters of Arts of Cambridge to be incorporated this year and two Bach. of Div. of whom Rob. Hill the Writer before mention'd was one Daniel Plancius a Belgian born was this year a Sojourner in the Univ. for the sake of the publ Library and did soon after publish several Books which shew'd him a learned man one of which was answer'd and animadverted upon by Heribert Ross-weidus and Rob. Swertius Joh. Drusius also was a Sojourner not in a private House but in Gloc. Hall who being admirably well skill'd in the Hebrew Chalday and Syriack Tongue was recommended to the chief Heads of the University to read those Tongues either privately or publickly He soon after removed to Ch. Ch. and as a Member thereof took a degree in Arts as I shall tell you in the year following An. Dom. 1605. An. 3 Jac. 1. Chanc. Thom. Earl of Dorset Vicechanc. Dr. George Abbot again July 16. Proct. Rich. Fitzherbert of New Coll. Joh. Hanmer of All 's Coll. April 11. Bach. of Arts. June 11. Walt. Raleigh of Magd. Coll. Many year after his death were published by Dr. Sim. Patrick Dean of Peterborough his Works entit Reliquiae Raleighanae 20. Hen. Jackâ—on of C. C. Coll. 27. Sam. Fell of Ch. Ch. Pet. Turner Oct. 21. Hen. Rogers of Jes Coll. 23. Joh. Ley of Ch. Ch. Dec. 17. Joh. Andrews of Trin. Coll. Feb. 26. Franc. Stewart of Ch. Ch. Son of the Earl of Murray and of kin to his Maj. James 1. See more in the year 1616 among the Creations Joh. Drusius of Ch. Ch. Son of the learned Critick Joh. Drusius was admitted the same day 28. Sampson Price of Hart Hall lately of Exet. Coll. Of Raleigh Jackson Fell Turner Rogers and Ley will be large mention made in the second Vol. Adm. 190. Mast of Arts. Apr. 17. Daniel Fairclough commonly called Featley of C. C. Coll. 24. Benj. Culme of Linc. Coll. lately of S. Albans Hall He was the Son of Hugh Culme of Molland in Devonshire and going afterwards into Ireland became at length D. of D. and Dean of S. Patricks Church near Dublin where he was accounted a learned man and an excellent Preacher and Theologist But he being forced thence by the Rebellion that broke out in 1641 went into England lived several years in a retired condition at Mudghill near to Lidiard St. Johns in Wiltshire where dying in October an 1657 aged 76 was buried in the Church-yard of Lidiard before mention'd Over his Grave was soon after an Altar-tomb erected with a large Inscription thereon wherein 't is said he died 21 Octob. May 16. Joh. Bery or Bury of Balliol lately of Corp. Christ Coll. Jun. 16. James Rowlandson Lancelot Dawes of Qu. Coll. 9. Thom. Aylesbury of Ch. Ch. This Gentleman who was a Londoner born was second Son of Will. Aylesbury by Anne his Wife Daughter of Joh. Poole Esquire and from Westminster School became a Student of Ch. Ch. 1598. After he had left the University he became Secretary to Charles Earl of Nottingham Lord High Admiral of England and to George Duke of Bucks his Successor in that great Office By the endeavours of which last he was made one of the Masters of the Requests and Master of the Mint being about that time a Baronet which places he keeping till the grand Rebellion broke out in 1642 he adher'd to the Cause of K. Ch. 1. and in 1649 when all things were in a Confusion as to the Royal Party he retired with his Family to Antwerp in Brabant where continuing till 1652 he removed to Breda and dying in 1657 aged 81 was buried in the great Chnrch there leaving behind him a Son named William of whom I shall speak elsewhere and a Daughter named Frances the Wife of Edw. Hyde of Pirtâ—n in Wilts since made Earl of Clarendon These things I mention because the said Sir Tho. Aylesbury was a learned man and as great a Lover and Encourager of Learning and learned men especially of Mathematicians he being one himself as any man in his time June 9. Rich. Corbet Rob. Burton Hen. Byam of Ch. Ch. 12. Joh. Warner of Magd. 23. George Webb of C. C. Jul. 3. Sam. Browne of All 's Coll. Dec. 16. Edw. Abbot of Vniversity Coll. In the year 1616 Jan. 13. he was admitted Chauntor of the Church of Wells in the place of Rich. Boughton sometimes of Magd. Coll. in this University and dying in 1634 Sebastian Smith M. A. of Ch. Ch. was admitted to that dignity on the 9 of March the same year Will. Boswell of Ball. Coll. was admitted the same day This person who was afterwards Chaplain to John
was then actually created Master of Arts. An. Dom. 1608. An. 6 Jac. 2. Chanc. the same viz. Thomas Earl of Dorset but he dying the 19 Apr. Dr. Rich. Bancroft Archb. of Canterbury succeeded in the Chancellourship on the 22 of the same month He was born at Farnworth in Lancashire in Sept. 1544 Son of Joh. Bancroft Gent. by Mary his Wife Daughter of Joh. Curwyn Brother to Dr. Hugh Curwyn Archb. of Dublin and after he had been severely trained up in Grammatical Learning he was first placed in Christs and soon after removed to Jesus Coll. in Cambridge Afterwards by the endeavours of his said Uncle Dr. Curwyn he became when young Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Dublin but the Uncle removing and dying soon after he was made Chaplain to Dr. Cox Bishop of Ely who gave him the Rectory of Teversham in the Country of Cambridge Being thus put into the road of preferment he was admitted Bach. of Div. 1580 and five years after Doctor About which time he put himself into the Service of Sir Christoph Hatton Lord Chancellour of England by whose recommendations he was made Prebendary of Westminster in the place of Mr. Joh. Wickham an 1592 from whence he had the easier passage to S. Pauls in London of which Cathedral he was Treasurer Vicechanc. Dr. King again Jul. 17. Proct. Edw. Vnderhyll of Magd. Coll. Joh. Hamden of Ch. Ch. Apr. 6. Bach. of Musick Dec. 13. Will. Stonard Organist of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. He hath composed certain Divine Services and Anthems the words of one or more of which are published in the Collection of Divine Services and Anthems put out by Jam. Clifford an 1663. We have also some of his Compositions in our publick Musick School at Oxon sent by Walter Porter to his Kinsman Joh. Wilson Doct. of Musick and the publick Professor of the praxis of that Faculty in Oxon to be reposed and kept for ever in the Archives of the said School In the Organists place of Ch. Ch. succeeded Edward Low of Salisbury about 1630 who was afterwards publick Professor of the musical praxis in this University and Author of Short directions for the performance of Cathedral Service printed at Oxon in oct an 1661. The second Edition of which came out at the same place in 1664 with a review and many useful Additions relating to the Common Prayer by the same hand This Mr. Low who was judicious in his profession but not graduated therein died on the 11 of July 1682. whereupon his Body was buried at the upper end of the Divinity Chappel joyning on the north side of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. near to the Body of Alice his sometimes Wife Daughter of Sir Joh. Peyton the younger of Dodington in the Isle of Ely Kt. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 13. Joh. Harrys of New Coll. 16. Charles Croke of Ch. Ch. See among the Doct. of Div. an 1625. 20. Will. Lewis of Hart Hall afterwards Fellow of Oriel Coll. See among the Creations 1627. 31. Rich. Gove of Magd. Hall June 2. Gilb. Ironside of Tâ—in Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Bristow James Martin of Broadgates was admitted the same day See among the Masters 1611. 6. Joh. Wall of Ch. Ch. Jul. 7. Edward Bagshaw of Brasn Coll. 9. Joh. Barlow of Hart Hall Oct. 14. Isaac Colf of Ch. Ch. Nov. 19. Gilb Stâ—akes of Hart Hall See among the Bach. of Div. 1646. Jan. 25. Sam. Smith Will. Greenhill Accepted Frewen of Magd. Coll. The last of which three was afterwards Archb. of York Feb. 16. Hen. Lord Clifford Baron of Skypton eldest Son of the Earl of Cumberland was then admitted Bach. of Arts as a Member of Ch. Ch. After this man's time studied in the same house Henâ—y Clifford Son of Francis Earl of Cumberland who by the various Copies of Verses that he wrot but whether published I know not obtained the character of the best of Poets among the Nobility He was afterwards Earl of Cumberland and dying on the 11 of Decemb. 1643 was buried by his Ancestors in a Vault under the Church of Skâ—pton in Craven in Yorkshire Feb. 16. Nich. Guy of Hart Hall See among the Masters an 1611. 1â— Rich. Eedes of Brasn Coll. One of both his names who was a Warwickshire man born and afterwards the Presbyterian Curat of the rich Church at Cleve in Glocestershire hath written Christ exalted and Wisdom justified or the Saints esteem of Jesus Christ as most precious handled c. Lond. 1659. oct besides one or more Sermons which he before had published Whether the same with him of Brasnose Quaere 17. Joh. Ball of S. Maries Hall lately of Brasn Coll. 20. Thom. Howell of Jesus Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Bristow 23. Will. Slatyer of Brasn Coll. As for Harrys Gove Ironside Wall Bagshaw Greenhil Frewen Howell and Slayer before mentioned will be large mention made of them in the second Volume of this Work or elsewhere Adm. 213 or thereabouts Mast of Arts May 1â— Henr. Whistler of Trin. Coll. May 30. Sam. Fell Joh. Ley of Ch. Ch. Henr. Rogers of Jes June 2. Walt. Raleigh of Magd. Coll. 6. Sampson Price of Hart Hall afterwards of Exeter Coll. July 7. Gabriel Richardson of Brasn Mar. 18. Hen. Jackson of C. C. Coll. Admitted 98 or thereabouts Bach. of Div. June 1. Lionell Day Fellow of Balliol sometimes of Oriel Coll. was then admitted He was younger Brother to John Day mentioned among the Writers under the year 1627 was Rector of Whichford near to Brailes in Warwickshire and Author of Concio ad Clerum habita Oxonii die Martis post Comitia an dom 1609. in Luc. 22. 31. Oxon. 1632. qu. besides other things as 't is said but such I have not yet seen He died in 1640 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Whichford before mention'd June 30. Joh. Davies of Lincoln sometimes a Student in Jesus College Jul. 7. Thom. Peacock of Brasn Coll. He was a Cheshire man born and Tutor to the famous Rob. Bolton the Author of whose Life doth much celebrate the said Peacock for his learning and great sanctity of life and conversation He was buried in S. Maries Church in Oxon 7 Dec. 1611. 13. Joh. Sandsbury of S. Johns Coll. Besides these four were 24 more admitted among whom Nich. Simpson of C. C. Coll. was one and Rich. Colfe of Ch. Ch. another both Accumulators Doct. of Law Apr. 16. James Cook of New Coll. He was the only Doctor admitted this year Doct. of Phys June 1. Rich. Andrews of S. Joh. Coll. He had improv'd himself much in his Faculty in his Travels beyond the Seas which afterwards made him highly esteemed among learned men and others Will. Turner of Ball. Coll. was admitted the same day He was a Londoner born and was Master of Arts of Cambridge in which degree being incorporated with us an 1602 entred himself into Balliol Coll. having before spent some years in foreign Academies in the study of Phys and as a
may see afterwards he became Chaplain to Alice Countess Dowager of Derby Wife of Tho. Lord Ellesmere and the publisher of Loves peereless paragon or the attributes and progress of the Church Serm. at S. Maries in Oxon and at Harfield in Middlesex on Cant. 2. 10. Oxon. 1613. qu. and perhaps of other things Nov. 9. Will. Sparke of Magd. 17. Will. Jewell of Exet. Coll. The last of these two did translate from French into English The golden Cabinet of true Treasure containing the summ of moral Philosophy Lond. 1612. oct What other things he hath translated or what he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him beside only that he was a Gentleman's Son of Devonshire and that he became a Sojournour of Exet. Coll. an 1603. aged 17. Adm. 97. Bach. of Div. Dec. 14. Rob. Bolton of Brasn Feb. 22. Tho. Thompson of Qu. Coll. Will. Loe of S. Alb. Hall did supplicate for the same degree but whether he was admitted it appears not Adm. 11. Doct. of Law June 28. Alexander Sheppard of Jesus Coll. He was a learned Civilian but what he hath published I know not Doct. of Physick Jun. 26. Thom. Johnson of Oriel Coll. He was buried in S. Maries Church in Oxon 16 Nov. 1621 but whether he was Author of a Book which goes under the name of Dr. Johnson entit Practica medicinae de aegritudinibus capitis Lond. 1602. qu. I cannot justly say See another Thom. Johnson M. D. in these Fasti in the 2 Vol. an 1643. Doct. of Div. June… Rich. Mocket of All 's Coll. July… Walt. Bennet of New Coll. In Sept. 1608 he became Chauntor of the Church of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Will. Zouch and on the 7 of March 1609 Archdeacon of Wilts on the death of Dr. Edm. Lilly In his Chauntorship succeeded Hen. Cotton as I shall tell you in these Fasti an 1610 and in his Archdeaconry one Tho. Leach 15 Nov. 1614. 19. Rob. Clay of Mert. Coll. He afterwards succeeded Dr. Joh. Favour in the Vicaridge of Halyfax and dying in 1628 left by will to the said Coll. 100 l. for two Sermons yearly to be preached to the University as Dr. Bickley had formerly given to them to be preached by a Yorkshire Man if any such be Fellow or Chaplain of that College who in his Prayer is to mention Dr. Clay sometimes Vicar of Halifax as the founder of those Sermons Jan. 24. John Bancroft of Ch. Ch. a Compounder He was soon after Master of Vniversity Coll. Incorporations Apr. 29. Thom. Wharton eldest Son of Philip Lord Wharton was incorporated M. of Arts. as he had stood at Cambridge He was Father to Philip Lord Wharton who openly appeared in armes against K. Ch. 1. an 1642. And many years after he was made one of the Privy Council to K. Will. 3. May 4. Josias Bird Bach. of Arts of Cambridge He was now of All 's Coll. under the inspection of his kinsman or uncle Dr. Will. Bird. Jun. 12. Hipocrates D'othon or Othen Doct. of Phys of the Univ. of Montpellier He died 13. Nov. 1611 and was buried in the Church of St. Clements Danes without Temple Barr within the liberty of Westm Jul. 11. Will. Gonge M. A. of Cambridge He was a Native of Stratford bow in Middlesex was educated in Kings Coll. of which he was Fellow afterwards he was Doct. of Div. and the pious and learned Preacher of the Church in the Blackfriers in London where in his time he was accounted the Father of the London Ministers that is of such who were put in by the Authority of the rebellious Parliament in 1641 42. c. He was one of the Assembly of Divines was a good Text-man as his Whole armour of God Exposition of the Hebrews Exposition of the Lords Prayer and other learned works the titles of some of which you may see in Oxf. Cat. shew He is often honorably mention'd by Voetius Streso and other outlandish Divines and was always accounted by the Puritan eminent for his humility patience and faith He died 12. of Dec. 1653 and was buried in the said Church of the Black-fryers on the 16 of the said month aged 79 or thereabouts John Richardson M. A. of the same University was incorporated the same day One Joh. Richardson was educated in Eman Coll. was afterwards D. D. Master first of Peter house then of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge and Vicechancellour of that University This Person who had a hand in the translation of the Bible appointed by King Jam. 1. died about the beginning of 1625 and was buried in Trin. Coll. Chappel Another John Richardson who was D. D. succeeded Dr. Walt. Balcanquall in the Deanery of Rochester and died in Apr. 1636 and a third John Richardson I find who from being D. of D. of Dublin was made Bishop of Ardagh in Ireland Which Bishoprick he being forced to leave upon the rebellion that broke out in that Kingdom an 1641 retired to London where he died in 1654. Whether any of these three were the same with John Richardson the incorporated Master of Arts I cannot now justly tell Jul. 11. Abrah Dickonson D. D. of Cambr. was also then incorporated in that faculty An. Dom. 1610. An. 8. Jac. 1. Chanc. Dr. Rich. Bancroft Archb. of Canterburry but he dying 2. Nov. Thom. Egerton Baron of Ellesmere Lord Chancellour of England and one of the Kings Privy Council was chosen into his place the next day and on the tenth was installed in the Bishop of Durhams house at London Vicechanc. Dr. Jo. King again Jul. 14. at which time the Chancellours letters being read for his election 't was order'd that the Heads of Colleges and Halls should at all times be ready and diligent to assist the Vicechanc. in his government of the University especially in matters of Religion for the suppressing of Popery and Faction c. The said Dr. King was soon after Bishop of London Proct. Râ—b Pink of New Coll. Sam. Radcliffe of Bras Coll. Apr. 17. Bach. of Musick July 11. Thomas Bartlet of Magd. Coll. He hath several compositions in Musick in MS. but whether extant I cannot tell On the 26. of Apr. Richard Deering did as a member of Christ Church supplicate for the Degree of Bach. of Musick and had his desire as it seems granted tho not registred because in matters of his composition which were soon after by him made extant he entitles himself Bach. of Musick This Person who was born of and descended from a right antient Family of his name living in Kent was bred up in Italy where he obtained the name of a most admirable Musician After his return he practised his faculty for some time in England where his name being highly cried up became after many intreaties Organist to the English Nuns living in the Monastery of the blessed Virgin Mary at Bruxells At length after the Marriage of K. Ch. 1. he was made Organist to his Royal Comfort Henrietta Maria with
whom he continued till she was forced to leave England by the Presbyterian outrages in the time of the grand rebellion He hath written 1 Cantica sacra ad melodiam Madrigalium elaborata senis vocibus Antwerp 1618. qu. divided in six volumes according to the voices In the title of this book he write himself Richards Deringus Bac. Mus 2 Cantica sacra ad duas tres voces composita cum Basso continuo ad Organum Lond. 1662. c. published by John Playford and by him dedicated to Hen. Maria the Queen Dowager the Author who was always a Rom. Catholick having been dead about 4 or 5 years before A second set was published in the year 1674 entit Basso contiruo cantica sacra containing Hymes and Anthems for two voices to the Organ both Lat. and English composed by Rich. Deering Christopher Gibbons Ben. Rogers Matthew Lock and others Printed in fol. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 26. Will. Page of Balliol afterwards of Allsouls Coll. 27. Hen. Welstede of Broadgates hall See among the Masters an 1612. 3â— Christoph Potter of Queens June 14. Rob. Skinner of Trin. Coll. 21. Nich. Grey of Ch. Ch. 28. Griffin Higgs of St. Johns Jul. 5. Nath. Carpenter of Exet. Coll. Nov. 6. Will. Strode of Broadgates hall Quare Dec. 13. Tho. Nevill of Trin. Coll. He was the eldest Son of Sir Hen. Nevill Knight 〈…〉 of Abergavenny 17. Christoph White of Ch. Ch. Jan. 24. Humph. Sidetham of Exeter afterwards of Wadham Coll. 28. Gilbert Wats of Linc. Coll. Jasp Fisher of Magd. hall afterwards of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day Of all these Bachelaurs only Nath. Carpenter Christoph White and Jasp Fisher have been largely mention'd in this vol. among the Writers As for the others that are Writers they are to be mention'd in the next vol. Admitted 183. Mast of Arts. May 15. Edward Chaloner of Magd. Coll. afterwards of All 's June 22. John Reading of Magd. hall 26. Hen. Cotton of Brasn Coll. a Compounder This Person who was the Son of Dr. Hen. Cotton B. of Salisbury became Prebendary of Fordington and Writhlington in the said Church on the death of Dr. Will. Zouch 29. Sept. 1608 Preb. of Bytton on the death of Meredith Morgan 4. Dec. 1612 Chauntor thereof by the death of Dr. Walt. Bennet 30. July 1614 and at length Prebendary of Highworth in the said Church of Sarum by the death of Dr. Pet. Lilye on the eleventh day of March following He died in 1622 and was succeeded in the Chauntorship by Dr. Humph. Henchman afterwards B. of Saâ—um Jul. 4. Joh. Wylde of Ball. Coll. This Person who was the eldest Son of Serj. Geo Wylde of Droitwich in Worcestershire was about this time a Student in the Inner Temple of which he became Lent reader 6. Car. 1. afterwards Serjeant at Law and Lord chief Baron of the Exchecquer in the time of the rebellion This was the Person who drew up the Impeachment against the Bishops and by him sent to the H. of Lords an 1641. being the prime manager in that affair and what he wrot as to that matter was afterwards printed He was the same also who upon the command or rather desire of the great Men sitting at Westminister did condemn to death at Winchester one Capt. Jâ—hn Burley for causing a drum to be beat up for God and K. Ch. at Newport in the Isle of Wight in order to rescue his captiv'd King an 1647. For which act after Burley had been executed at Winton on the 10. Feb. the same year he received 1000 l. out of the privy purse of Derby-house About the same time also he received another 1000 l. as 't was then confidently affirmed for the acquittance of Major Rolph who had a design to murder or poyson the said King so 't was all one to him whether he hung or hung not so he got the beloved pelf After Oliver came to the Protectorship he retired and acted not but when the Rump Parliament was restored after Richards deprivation then was he restored to the Exchecquer and after K. Charles 2. returned lived about 9 years in a retired condition At length giving way to fate at Hamstede near London his body was buried at Wherwell in Hampshire which is a Lordship belonging to Charles Lord de la Warr who married Anne Dau. and Heir of the said John Wylde Jul. 5. Joh. Seller or Sellar of Oriel Coll. One of both his names hath published Five Sermons Lond. 1636. oct and other things Whether the same with him of Oriel who was a Ministers Son of Glocestershire I cannot tell unless I could see the said Sermons Nor do I know anything to the contrary but that he may be the same with John Seller of C. C. Coll. a Ministers Son of Kent who was admitted Bach. of Arts 18. Feb. 1611. and Master 2. Jul. 1614. This last John Seller being a learned Man Mr. Rich. James whom I have mentioned among the Writers 1638. numbred him among his learned acquaintance and therefore wrot divers Epistles to him Jan. 23. Hugh Robinson of New Coll. Bach. of Physick Apr. 30. Theodore Goulson M. of A. of Merton Coll. He was the only Bach. of Phys that was admitted this year See among the Doct. following Bach. of Div. Mar 27. Tho. Winniffe Geor. Hakewill of Ex. June 21. Josias White of New 25. Brian Twyne Thom. Jackson Henry Masen of Corp. Ch. Coll. July 5. Barnab Potter of Qu. Coll. Will. Piers of Ch. Ch. Which two last were afterwards Bishops 6. Rob. Barnes of Magd. Coll. This Person who was Son of Joseph Barnes Printer to the University of Oxon and Fellow of the said Coll. of St. Mary Magd. became afterwards Minister of Greys in Oxfordshire by the favour of William Viscount Wallingford and published A Sermon preached at Henly at the visitation 27. Apr. 1626 on Psal 9. 16. Oxon 1626. qu. besides a collection of Verses made on the death of Will Son of Arth. L. Grey of Wilton Admitted 26. Doct. of Law Apr. 30. Francis Alexander of New College Prebendary of Winchester June 21. Tho. Ryves of the same Coll. He is to be remembred among the Writers in the 2. vol. Doct. of Phys Apr. 30. Theodore Goulsâ—n of Merton Coll. He accumulated the Degrees in Physick being now much in esteem for his knowledge therein Doct. of Div. June 11. Ralph Barlow of C. C. C. originally of Oriel and afterwards of New Coll. was then admitted D. of D. in the quality of a Compounder In Sept. an 1621. he succeeded Rich. Meredith in the Deanery of Wells and dying there was buried in the Cathedral 27. July 1631. Whereupon Dr. George Warburton Dean of Glocester succeeded him in that Dignity 13. Francis Kerrie of Ball. Coll. a Compounder He was now Canon residentiary of Hereford June 13. Job Best July 5. Silvan Griffith of Ch. Ch. Which two were Compounders the last being Archdeacon of Hereford 6. John Parkhurst Will. Langton of Magd. Coll. The first of
of Mrs. Mary Swaine the Wife of Mr. Will. Swaine at St. Botolphs without Aldersgate on Luke 10. 42. Lond. 1611. oct and perhaps other things He died about the beginning of November this year 1614 and was buried I presume in his Church of St. Martin beforementioned Mar. 23. Philip King M. A. of the same University Another of both his names was of this University as I shall tell you in these Fasti an 1618. and 1645. This year Charles de Beauvais of the Isle of Guernsey a young Man most conversant in the study of learned arts was entred a Student in Bodies Library but whether he was matriculated as a member of any Coll. or Hall it appears not He is the same Ch. de Beauvais without doubt who was afterwards Author of 1 Dedisciplinis scientiis in genere de recto ordine quo sunt in Scholis Academiis docendae c. 2 Recta delineatio disciplinae Vniversalis seu primae Philosophiae itemque Logicae Which two were printed at Lond. 1648. in oct 3 Exercitations concerning the pure and true and the impure and false religion Lond. 1665. oct at which time the Author was Rector of Witheham in Sussex An. Dom. 1615. An. 13. Jac. 1. Chanc. Thom. Lord Egerton Vicechanc. Dr. Will. Goodwin again July 17. Proct. Hugh Dicus of Brasn Coll. Richard Baylie of St. John Coll. Apr. 19. Bach. of Arts. May 4. John Bayly of Exet. Coll. 5. Steph. Geree of Magd. Hall July 5. Cornelius Burges of Wadh. 7. Charles Herle of Exeter Nov. 9. Francis Gough of New Coll. The last was afterwards Bishop of Limerick in Ireland Dec. 13. James Lamb of Brasn College afterwards of St. Maries Hall Feb. 5. Thom. Twittie of Oriel 6. Thom. Paybody of Merton Coll. Of the first of these last two you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1633 and of the other among the Masters of Arts an 1624. 7. John Brian of Queen Coll. I know not yet to the contrary but that he may be the same John Brian who published a funeral Sermon called The vertuous Daughter on Prov. 31. ver 29. Lond. 1636. qu. c. and perhaps other things Quaere 26. Alexander Gill Son of Alexander lately of Trin. Coll. now of Wadham and afterwards of Trinity again Five of these Bachelaurs namely Geree Burges Herle Lamb and Gill will be mention'd at large elsewhere Admitted 203. Bach. of Law June Tho Merriot John South John Crook of New Coll. The first who will be mention'd in the next volume was a good Latinist and Orator The second was afterwards the Kings Professor of the Greek tongue and at length upon the death of Dr. Tho. Hyde Chauntor of Salisbury 24. Sept. 1666. He died at Writtle in Essex of which place he was Vicar in August 1672 and was buried in the Church there whereupon his Chauntorship was confer'd on Dr. Dan. Whitbye of Trin. Coll. As for the last John Crook he was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. 〈◊〉 Winchester Prebendary of the Cathedral there and Master of the Hospital of St. Mary Magd. near to that City Admitted 9. Mast of Arts. May 3. Jerem. Stephens of Brasn 20. Will. Nicholson of Magd. Coll. Jun. 15. Rob. Weldon Barten Holyday of Ch. Ch. 17. Will. Thomas of Brasn Tho. Vicaâ— of Qu. 27. Griff. Higgs of Mert. Coll. Admitted 106. Bach. of Div. July 13. Sampson Price of Exeter Coll. Nov. 23. Edm. Gunter Samuel Fell Hen. Whistler of Trin. of Ch. Ch. Dec. 1. John Hanmer of All 's Coll. March 4. Fredericus Dorvilius of Exeter Coll. He writes himself Aquisgranensis natione Palatinus educatione being at this time a Sojournour in the said Coll. for the sake of Dr. Prideaux the Rector whom he much admired Adm. 15. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Physick July 3. Clement Westcombe of New Coll. who accumulated the Degrees in Physick He was about this time held in great value for the happy success in the practice of his faculty in and near the City of Exeter where he died in 1652 or thereabouts Doct. of Div. Mar. 27. Sam. Radcliff Principal June 17. John Barnston of Brasn Coll. The last of which who was now Chaplain to Egerton Lord Chancellour of England was about this time Canon Residentiary of Salisbury and afterwards a Benefactor to learning as I have told you elsewhere He lived to see himself outed of his spiritualities and dying 30. May 1645 was buried as it seems at Everton in Wilts Jun. 27. â—arnab Potter of Queens July 6. John King of Merton Coll. The last of these two was installed Canon or Preb. of the twelfth and last stall in the Collegiat Church at Westminster on the death of Dr. Will. Barlow Bish of Linc. an 1613 and this year 1615 Nov. 23 he became Canon of Windsore in the place of Mardoche Aldem deceased He died 7. Aug. 1638 and was buried in the Chappel of St. George at Windsore Dec. 1. John Hanmer of All 's Coll. See more among the Creations in the year following Feb. 27. Jasper Swyft of Ch. Ch. March 14. John Barcham of C. C. 21. John Davies of Lincoln Coll. Incorporations July 11. Will. Spicer Bach. of Law of Cambridge See among the Incorporations 1618. Abraham Gibson M. A. of the said University was incorporated the same day and again on the 15. July 1617. This Person who was afterwards Preacher to the Temples in London hath published 1 The Lands mourning for vain swearing Sermon on Jerem. 23. 10. Lond. 1613. oct 2 Christianae-polemica or a narrative to War Serm. at Wool-church in London before the Captains and Gentlemen of exercise in the Attillery-garden on Judg. 7. 18. Lond. 1619. oct and not unlikely other things He was afterwards D. of D. and dying in or near one of the Temples was buried near to the Communion Table in the Chancel of the Church belonging to the said Temples 5. Januar. 1629. July 11. Godfrey Goodman Bach. of Div. of Cambridge See more of him among the Bishops in Miles Smith an 1624. Samuel Purchas Bach. of Div. of the said University was incorporated the same day This worthy Divine who is by some stiled our English Ptolemy was born in the County of Essex either at Dunmow or Thacksted but in what Coll. or Hall in Cambridge educated I cannot yet tell After he had left the University he became Minister of Eastwood in Rochford hundred in his own Country but being desirous to forward and prosecute his natural Genie he had to the collecting and writing of voyages travels and pilgrimages left his cure to his Brother and by the favour of the Bishop of London got to be Parson of St. Martins Church within Ludgate He hath written and published 1 Pilgrimage or relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discovered from the Creation to this present c. in 4 parts Lond. 1614. fol. second edit and there again 1626. fol. 2 Purchas his Pâ—â—grims
other things as the Oxford Catalogue will tell you See more of him in Tho. Wilcocks among the writers an 1599. George Stanhop John Partenton D. D. As for the other Persons of Cambridge who were incorporated on the said day July 10 I know no great matter of them and therefore I shall proceed to speak of others who were afterwards incorporated July 11. John Thorie Thorius or Thoris Doct. of Phys of the Univ. of Dublin He was Son of Ralph Thorius a Physician and had formerly been Bach. of Arts of Magd. Coll. Rich. Hawley Doct. of Phys of Leyden in Holland was incorporated the same day He was now or lately Fellow of Merton College Octob. 25. Francis Glisson M. of A. of Gâ—nvil and Caies Coll. in Cambridge This learned Gentleman who was second Son of William Glisson of Rampisham in Dorsetshire and he the second Son of Walt. Glisson of the City of Bristow was afterwards Doct. of Physick the Kings publick Professor of that faculty in the said University Candidate of the Coll. of Physicians at London an 1634 Fellow the year after Anatomy reader in the said Coll. 1639 practised Physick at Colchester during the time of the rebellion where he was present when the generous Royalists of Kent were besieged 1648. and after In 1655 he was chosen one of the Elects of the said College and afterwards was President thereof for several years He hath written 1 Prolegomena Anatomica 2 Anatomia Hepatis 3 Do Lymphae-ductibas All which were several times printed and once at Amsterdam 1659. in tw 4 De natura substantiae energetica sewde via vitae c. Lond 1672. qu. 5 Deventriculo intestinis c. Lond. 1677. qu. and was one of the three Geo Bate and 〈◊〉 Regemâ—rter being the other two who wrot De Rachitide sive morbo puerili qui vulgo the Rickets dicitur Lond. 1650. oct The discovery also of the Capsula communis or Vagina Portae is owing to him who hath likewise given us certain notes for the more easie distinguishing of the Vena cava Porta and Vasa fellea in excarnating the Liver Further also he hath given such an excellent account of Sanguification discharging the Liver from that office and proved it by so good arguments and clear experiments that few have since doubted the truth thereof This worthy Doctor to whose learned Lucubrations and deep disquisitions in Physick not only Great Britain but remoter Kingdoms owe a particular respect and veneration died much lamented in the Parish of S. Bride alias S. Bridget in London in Oct. or Nov. 1677. Dec. 15. Edward Lake lately Bach. of Arts of Catherine Hall in Cambridge was incorporated in the same degree On the 24 Jan. following he was admitted Bach. of the Civil Law as a Member of S. Albans Hall This year was a supplicate made for one Hen. Jacie M. of A. to be incorporated but whether he was so or not I cannot find I take him to be the same with Henry Jessie alias Jacie a Preachers Son who was born at West Rowton in the north Riding of Yorkshire 3 Sept. 1601 and who in 1618 became Pensioner of S. Joh. Coll. in the said University Whence after he had taken one degree in Arts he was invited to live in the house of Brampton Gourdon of Assington in Suffolk Gent. Father to Joh. Gourdon a Burgess in the Long Parliament that began 1640 nominated one of the Judges to sit on K. Ch. 1. but was not present when Sentence was passed and to two others of that name who were Recruiters in that Parliament In which house being setled he studied Physick as well as Divinity After he had commenced M. of A. which was in 1626 he preached privately in the Neighbourhood and distributed practical Books among the Brethren Afterwards he removed to several places but was not permitted to tarry long in any because he was zealously averse to Conformity At length in 1645 he repaired to London where he joyned himself to the Congregation of which Mr. Hen. Jacob and Mr. Joh. Lathorp had been Pastors where he continued 25 years not without several disturbances especially before the grand Rebellion broke out He hath written 1 A catechism for Children The Answers in which were wholly in the words of the Scripture 2 The Scripture-Kalendar in use by the Prophets and Apostles and by our Lord Jesus Christ explaining the Accounts Measures c. This was first printed in 1645 and afterwards came out with several Additions to the time of his Majesties Restauration 1660 and perhaps after 3 The exceeding riches of grace advanced in the conversion of Mrs. Sarah Wight Lond. 1647. oct 4 Store-house of provision for resolving cases of conscience c. Lond. 1650 in tw 5 Description and explanation of 268 places in Jerusalem and the suburbs thereof with a large map printed 1653 qu. 6 The lords loud call to England being a true relation of some late various and wonderful Judgments or handy-works of God by Earthquake Lightning c. Lond. 1660. in six sheets in qu. This Book begins with certain matters relating to Oxon which being very false the Reader cannot otherwise but judge the rest so to be In 1661 came out an imposture of a most damnable design called Mirabilis annus or the year of prodigies and wonders c. and in 1662 the first and second part of Annus mirabilis secundus and probably other parts but such I have not yet seen When these came out which were advanced by several hands it was verily supposed that Henry Jessie had a principal share in them 7 Miscellanea sacra divers necessary truths seasonably published c. printed 1665 in oct 8 A looking-glass for children being a narrative of Gods gracious dealings with some little children Lond. 1674 oct He hath also written a Pref. or commendatory Epistle before Joh. Grayles Modest vindication of the doctrine of conditions in the covenant of Grace c. and other little things besides his own Experiences which I have not yet seen At length paying his last debt to nature 4 Sept. 1663 being then accounted the Oracle and Idol of the faction was on the 7 of the same month laid to sleep with his Fathers in a hole made in the Yard joyning to Old Bedlam near Morefields in the Suburbs of London attended with a strange medley of Fanaticks mostly Anabaptists that met upon the very point of time all at the same instant to do honour to their departed Brother Some years after came out a short account of his life and death c. but full of ridiculous and absurd Cantings to which is annex'd An Elegy on Mr. Will. Bridge Which Bridge had been sometimes Fellow of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge was afterwards a Presbyterian one of the Ass of Divines and the independent Minister of Yarmouth in Norfolk He died a Nonconformist in 1670. See more of Hen. Jessie in Jos Caryl in the other Vol. of this work Creations May 25. Robert Lord Dormer
with excellent notes of a book entit Concilii Florentini exactissima narratio c. written by Sylvest Sguropulus Hag. com 1660 fol. dedicated to K. Ch. 2. which being animadverted upon by Leo Allatius a Jesuit Creyghton came out with an Answer He hath also one or more Sermons extant and dying 21 Nov. 1672 aged 79 or thereabouts was buried in a Chappel joyning to the Cathedral Church of Wells Over his Grave was soon after erected a fair tomb of Alabaster with his Effigies at length in his pontificalia lying thereon and on the wall over it is a large inscription part of which runs thus Robertus Creyghton c. Natus Dunecaledoniae in boriali Scotia per patrem Thoman ex antiquis Râ—veniae Toparchis per matrem Margaretam Stuart Johannis Jacobidae filiam ex illustriss familiâ Stuartorum comitum Atholiae Johannis secundi Scotiae regu à trarre pronepos c. Frances the Widow of this Dr. R. Creyghton who was Daughter of Will. Waldrond Esq died on the third of the Kal. of Nov. 1683 aged 68 and was buried near to the said tomb over whose grave was a monument with a large Inscription thereon put at the charge of Rob. Creyghton her Son Chauntor and Canon of Wells Doctor of Divinity Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty and Author of The vanity of the Dissenters plea for their separation from the Church of England Sermon on 1 Cor. 1. 10. Lond. 1682. qu. Robert Sheringham M. of A. of Gonvil and Caies Coll. This learned Gentleman who was if I mistake not a Cambr. man born was ejected or at least left his Fellowship of that House in 1643 and afterwards retiring to London for a time went thence into Holland where he taught the Hebrew and Arabick Tongues to young men at Roterdam and in other places After the Kings return in 1660 he was restored to his Fellowship and lived in a very retired and studious condition being then esteemed a most excellent Linguist especially for the Oriental and Gothick Languages as also admirably well vers'd in the original Antiquities of the English Nation as it fully appears in his book De Anglorum gentis origine disceptatio c. Cantab. 1670 in a large octavo and in his translation from Hebrew into Latin with an illustration by Commentaries of a Talmude book called Joma wherein are several matters treating of Sacrifices Lond. 1648 in qu. He hath also published Two sermons preached as S. Maries Church in Cambridge Lond. 1647 qu. Also The Kings Supremacy asserted printed 1660 in qu. and other things He died of an apoplectical fit which caused him to fall on the fire in his Chamber in Caies College in the Winter time an 1677. Nich. Bernard M. of A. He was at this time Chaplain to the learned Dr. James Vsher Primate of Ireland from whom he had received his Ordination in S. Peters Church in Drogheda an 1626. Afterwards he was made by him Dean of Ardagh some say of Kilmore and intrusted in making useful Observations and Collections for him In the time of the Rebellion in Ireland he being then Doctor of Divinity he suffered much and was often in danger of his life At length having lost all there he returned safe into England to attend on his Lord became Rector of the rich Church of Whitchurch in Shropshire by the gift of the Earl of Bridgwater Chaplain to Oliver Lord Protector one of his Almoners and Preacher to the Society of Greys Inn. After the Kings Restauration in 1660 being possess'd with just doubts concerning the settlement of Ireland he refused to return to that Country to take possession of his Deanery and perhaps of a Bishoprick Whereupon he continued at Whitchurch before mention'd to his dying day He hath written 1 The penitent death of a woful sinner or the penitent death of John Atherton late Bishop of Waterford in Ireland who was executed at Dublin 5 Decemb. 1640 with some Annotations on several passages Lond. 1641 qu. 42 oct 2 Sermon preached at the burial of Joh. Atherton the next night after his Execution 5 Decemb. 1640 in S. Johns Church in Dublin on Acts 26. part of the 17 verse and all the 18. Lond. 1641 quart 42 octav 3 Letter from the siege of Drogheda to a friend in Dublin 7 Jan. 1641. 4 The whole proceedings of the Siege of Drogheda in Ireland Lond. 1642. qu. To which is added an Appendix concerning other occurrences fallen out since He was present all the time during the said siege and was several times in jeopardy of his life 5 Dialogue between Paul and Agrippa on Acts 26. 17 18. printed 1642. in oct 6 Farewel sermon of comfort and concord preached at Drogheda on 2 Cor. 13. 11. printed 1651 in octav There was another Farewel sermon preached but that I have not yet seen 7 Life and death of Dr. James Vsher late Archb. of Armagh c. in a sermon at his funeral at the Abbey at Westminster 17 Apr. 1656 on 1 Sam. 25. 1. Lond. 1656. oct To which are added some enlargements 8 The judgment of the late Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland concerning first the extent of Christs death secondly of the sabbath c. Lond. 1657. Whereupon Dr. Pet. Heylyn came out with an Answer to it called Respondet Petrus 9 Several Letters between him and Dr. Heylyn See more in Dr. Heylyn among the Writers in the 2 Vol. of this work under the year 1662. 10 Devotions of the antient Church in seven pious Prayers with 7 administ c. printed 1660 in oct 11 Clavi trabales or nailes fastned by some great Masters of Assemblies confirming the Kings Supremacy and Church Government under Bishops c. Lond. 1661. qu. See more in Dr. Rob. Sanderson among the Writers in the 2 vol an 1662. With other books he hath written or published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died and was buried at Whitchurch in the winter time an 1661. leaving behind him a Son named James Nathan Bernard M. of Arts. Among my searches I find one Nathaniel Bernard to be Lecturer of St. Sepulchers in London an 1629 who for uttering certain words in his prayer before Sermon at Antholines concerning the Queen was brought into the High Commission Court Also for preaching against his Majesties Declaration at St. Maries Church in Cambridge 6. May 1632 and using certain dangerous expressions therein was suspended excommunicated fined and committed to the New-prison near to London where he continued several months c. It doth farther appear also that one Nathaniel Bernard was beneficed in Essex but in the beginning of the grand rebellion in 1642 he was sequestred from his calling and charge there by several Committees sitting at Westminster banished from his dwelling and society of his Wife and Children and they turned out of doors c. Whereupon retiring for safety to Oxon published A looking-glass for rebellion Sermon preached 16. June 1644. in St. Maries Church
in Oxon. before the two Houses of Parliament on 1. Sam. 15. 23. Oxon. 1644. qu. Whether these two are the same or whether he that was the Author of the Looking-glass for rebellion was Author of the Mystery of the incarnation being a Serm. on John 1. ver 14. printed 1648. in qu. I know not or whether the same who was incorporated M. of A. beforemention'd I find one Dr. Nathaniel Bernard to have died beyond the Seas in 1656 whom I take to be the same with him who was Author of the Looking-glass c. Richard Culmer M. of A. This busie Man I find was born in the Isle of Thanet in Kent educated in Grammar learning in the City of Canterbury and in Academical in Magd. Coll. in Cambridge Afterwards he became Minister of Goodneston in his own Country was suspended ab officio beneficio for refusing to read the book of sports on the Lords day For which usuage being much provoked he became a bitter enemy to Archbishop Laud to the Cathedral at Canterbury and to all the prelatical Party in the beginning of the rebellion raised and carried on by the disaffected Party About that time he became Minister of Harbledowne in Kent and if I mistake not Vicar of St. Stephens near to Canterbury in the place of Mr. John Gouge ejected thence for refusing the Covenant And least he should not be esteemed as zealous a Brother for the cause as any then in being he published a most vile Pamphlet intit Cathedral news or Dean and Chapter news from Canterbury Lond. 1644. qu. In which heaping up all that he could rake together against the Cathedral of Canterbury Archbishop Dean Canons and other Officers belonging thereunto had immediatly two answers from Oxon. one in a Pamphlet intit The razing of the record c. Oxon. 1644. in two sh and half in qu. and in another called Antidotum Culmerianum or animadversions upon a late Pamphlet entit Cathedral news from Canterbury c. Oxon. 1644. qu. in 5 sheets In which last is set down many actions of Culmers life his demeanour while he was in the University of Cambridge and in the Country his refractoriness impudence covetousness unnaturalness c. and what not that the Author thereof who was a most generous Loyalist and who knew him could put together to display him to the World There also goes under the said R. Culmers name The Ministers hue and cry or a true discovery of the insufferable injuries robberies c. acted against Ministers c. Lond. 1651. qu. in 3. sh as also Lawless tythe robbers discovered who make tytherevenew a Mock-maintenance c. Lond. 1655 besides other things which I have not yet seen After the Kings restauration he continued so zealous in his opinion as to engage for so it was notoriously suspected in that hellish plot for which Thomas Venner Rog. Hodgkin c. Anabaptists and Fiftmonarchy-men suffered in Coleman-street in London 9. Jan. 1660. But the spirit of the Man being as well known as his face he was taken posting up from Canterbury to London riding upon Chattam hill Whereupon being committed for a time he among several examinations was asked why he brake down those famous Windows of Christ Church in Canterbury to which he answer'd he did it by order of Parliament and being asked why in one window which represented the Devil tempting our Saviour he brake down Christ and left the Devil standing he answer'd he had an order to take down Christ but had no order to take down the Devil Whereby was understood that those plotting brethren did mean when they intended to set up King Jesus to pull down Christ This Richard Culmer who was commonly called in Kent Blew Dick of Thanet because he wore blew in opposition to black which he hated lived several years after and dying but when I know not was buried in the Parish Church of Monkton in the said Isle of Thanet Ralph Brownring Doct. of Div. This learned and most religious Person was born at Ipswich in Suffolke was bred Scholar and Fellow of Pembroke hall in Cambridge became afterwards Prebendary of Eâ—y Master of Catherine hall in the said University and Archdeacon of Coventry in the room of Dr. Sam. Brook In 1641 he was made Bishop of Exeter to the liking of all good Men upon the translation of Dr. Joseph Hall to Norwych but the Episcopal function being soon after silenced he became after some years spent in the family of Tho. Rich. Esq afterwards a Baronet Preacher to the Temples in London where being settled according to his desire with all conveniences surrendred up his pious Soul to him that gave it 7. Dec. 1659. Whereupon his body was buried in the Church belonging to the said Temples on the 17. day of the same month at the charge of the Templers who also put a very fair monument over his grave Dr. John Gauden preached then his funeral Sermon and at the end of it printed a short account of his life which is mostly remitted without acknowledgment into a book intit Memoires of the lives c. published by Dav. Lloyd This Dr. Brownrig hath two volumes of Sermons extant whereof the second contains 25 and both 65 Sermons All which Cambridge Men viz. Spurstow Rainbow Ball Creyghton Sheringham Nic. and Nath. Bernard Culmer and Dr. Brownrig were among many others of the University of Cambridge incorporated on the said 15. of July Afterwards these following were incorporated this year Oct. 27. Maurice Williams Doct. of Phys of Padua in Italy He was the Son of Lewis Williams of the Diocess of London was educated in Oriel Coll. of which he became Fellow in 1620. Afterwards resigning it in 1631. settled in London was Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians a Knight and eminent for his practice in that faculty He died in his house within the Parish of St. Anne Black-friers in London in the beginning of the year 1658 and was there I suppose buried Nov. 6. Rob. Hall Bach. of Arts of Cambridge now of Exeter Coll. He was Son of Dr. Joseph Hall Bishop of Exeter and was admitted M. of A. of this University in Feb. following See among the created Doctors of Div. an 1643. Mar… James Primerose M. of A. of the University of Bourdeaux and Doct. of Phys of Mountpelier was incorporated Doctor of Physick This learned Doctor who was Son of Dr. Gilb. Primerose mention'd before under the year 1624. was born in the City of St. Jeand ' Angely in the Province of Xantoigne in France and afterwards lived and practised his faculty at Hull in Yorkshire where and in most parts of that Country he was esteemed an eminent Physician He hath written and published several books the titles of some of which follow 1 Exercitationes animadversiones in Librum Gulielmi Harvaei de motu cordis circulatione sanguinis Lond. 1630. Lugd. Bat. 1639. qu. Answered by one Roger Drake Doct. of Phys of Cambr. Son of Rog. Drake
degenerate into madness and frenzie and that the endeavours of others under the pretence of reformation was to bring in Anarchy and Sacrilege he published a learned Tract called by a certain Author notwithstanding P. Heylyn published a book with the same title A coal from the Altar And another learned book entit Noli me tangere Or a thing to be thought of printed 1641. qu. Against Anarchy he also declared himself for Episcopacy and the establish'd Liturgy and published another book entit Communion comeliness Wherein is discovered the conveniency of the Peoples drawing near to the table in the sight thereof when they receive the Lords Supper c. Lond. 1641. qu. In which book by many impregnable arguments he proves a high conveniency if not a necessity for that most laudable custome of having railes about the Lords Table So that this Person being discern'd by the faction to be a friend to the Protestant Religion established in the Church of England was look'd upon as their enemy and was by them branded with Popery or as popishly affected Yet his former reputation in the City bore him up against the obloquy of private discontent for a time At length when they came openly to defie their Sovereign the Lords anointed it was a fit time to silence and remove Mr. Vdall for neither Dr. Gouge his Church in the Black-friers or Mr. Jo. Goodwins in Colemanstreet were half so full before the Long Parliament began as Mr. Vdalls had been since First therefore they plunder his house take away his Library and Houshold stuff then remove him from the execution of his Ministry and sequester the profits thereof for a Levite of their own Afterwards they sought to commit him to Prison tho aged and very weak and infirm in body and at length carried his aged and decrepid Wife out of her doors by force and set her in the open street to shift for her self This most pious and meek Man who had been favoured in his Ministry by the Vincents of Stoke-Dawbernon in Surrey Baronets hath written other things among which is The good of peace Sermon on Psal 29. 11. Lond. 1642. qu. He surrendred up his most pious and devout Soul to God about the latter end of May 1647 at which time he desired that his body might be buried in the Chancel of Allhallows in Honey-lane in Cheapside in Lond. unless the Parishioners of St. Austin desire to have the disposing of it In a most unworthy Pamphlet entit The first century of scandalous malignant Priests c. print 1643. I find these matters of Ephraim Vdall viz. that he hath affirmed that the great reformers of the Church now are Hypocrites and hath made framed and published a book intit Noli me tangere without license charging the Parliament with Sacrilege in endeavouring to abolish Episcopacy and to take away the Lands of Deans and Chapters to amend therewith the maintenance of preaching Ministers and that thereby they have brought a national sin on the Land as was formerly done by them in taking away Monasteries c. For which and other passages in the said book he was thrown out of his rectory by the blessed Parliament as it was then called An. Dom. 1631. An. 7. Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Will. Land Bishop of London Vicechanc. Dr. Smith of Wadh. Coll. again July 16. Proct. Atherton Bruch of Bras C. John Doughty of Mert. C. Apr. 20. Which Proctors being removed from their places by the Kings command in the month of August as I have told you at large elsewhere were elected for the remaining purt of the year Mr. Joh. Earle of Mert. Coll. Laur. Washington of Brasn Coll. Presented 26. Aug. Bach. of Musick Jul. 8. Will. Child of Ch. Ch. He was now one of the Organists of his Majesties Chappel at Windsore having before been one of the Gentlemen thereof I shall speak more largely of him in the year 1663. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 27. Thom. Wood Will. Aylesbury of Ch. Ch. The first of these two was afterwards Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry 30. George 〈◊〉 of Exeter Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Chester June 20. Rich. Allein of St. Alb. Oct. 20. Walt. Bushnell Joh. Wilkins Nich. Clagett of Mert. of Magd. Hall Dec. 10. Daniel Whitby of Brasn Jan. 17. Dudley Digges of Vniv. Feb. 9. Christop Fowler of Magd. Coll. The last of which was afterwards of St. Edm. Hall Mar. 22. Anth. Sadler of St. Edm. Hall 24. Joh. Shaw of Brasn Will. Rowland of Ex. Coll. All these will be mention'd at large elsewhere Admitted 249. Bach. of Law Oct. 11. Tho. Reade of New Coll. See more of him among the Doctors of this faculty an 1638. Besides him were 18 admitted among whom Will. Dowdeswell of Pemb. Coll. was one often commended by Sir Tho. Bâ—owne the Physician for a learned Man and Franc. St Barbe of Ball. Coll. another Tho. Heath of All 's Coll. was also admitted the same year but whether he was afterwards Doctor of his faculty of this Univ. I cannot tell When Dr. Sheldon became Archbishop of Canterbury he was made if I mistake not Controller of his Family and a Knight but after the said Archb. death he retired to Stoke near Guilford in Surrey and died in the beginning of the year 1680. Mast of Arts. Apr. 30. Thom. Warmstry of Ch. Ch. May 4. Will. Sedgwick of Pemb. Coll. Jun. 18. Rich. Busby Jasp Mayne of Ch. Ch. Joh. Oxenbridge of Magd. Hall 22. Joh. Gregory of Ch. Ch. 25. Joh. Gough or Goffe of Magd. 30. Thom. Good of Ball. Coll. Oct. 17. Mirth Waferer of St. Albans Hall lately of Merton Coll. Nov. 10. Abraham Woodhead of Vniv. Dec. 10. Edm. Chilmead of Magd. Alex. Griffith of Hart Hall Coll. Jan. 24. Allan Blane Rich. Stannix of Qu. Coll. 27. Edm. Vaughan of C. C. C. Admitted 128. Bach. of Phys Six Bachelaurs of Physick were admitted this year of which Nich. Lamie a French Man of Pemb. Coll. was the junior who before this time had spent 7 years in the studie of the said faculty in the University of Caen in Normandy There was also one admitted to practise Physick and another Chirurgery named Will. Manowrier a French Man who in the publick register is stiled Dominus de Pratis Bach. of Div. March 30. Nathan Simpson of Trin. Coll. Apr. 21. Christopher Newstead of St. Alb. Hall May 12. Will. Lyford of Magd. Coll. June… Will. Sherley of Ch. Ch. This learned Divine who was a Dorsetshire Man born became Rector of Huish Comb flower in the Dioc. of Wells upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. Atherton to the See of Waterford in Ireland in Feb. 1636 and about the same time beneficed in his own Country He is Author of The excellency of the order of the Church of England under Episcopal Government set forth in a Sermon at the Visitation at Blandsord an 1640 on 1. Cor. 11. 34. Lond. 1662. qu. Published by Rich. Harris of the Inner Temple after the
ascended the Throne he became the Latin Secretary and proved to him very serviceable when employed in business of weight and moment and did great matters to obtain a name and wealth To conclude he was a person of wonderful parts of a very sharp biting and satyrical wit He was a good Philosopher and Historian an excellent Poet Latinist Grecian and Hebritian a good Mathematician and Musitian and so rarely endowed by nature that had he been but honestly principled he might have been highly useful to that party against which he all along appeared with much malice and bitterness As for the things which he hath published are these 1 Of Reformation touching Church Discipline in England and the causes that hitherto have hindred it c. Lond. 1641. qu. At which time as before the Nation was much divided upon the Controversies about Church Government between the prelatical party and Puritans and therefore Milton did with great boldness and zeal offer his judgment as to those matters in his said book of Reformation 2 Animadversions upon the Remonstrants defence against Smectymnus Lond. 1641. qu. Which Rem defence was written as 't is said by Dr. Jos Hall Bishop of Exeter 3 Apology against the humble Remonstrant This was written in vindication of his Animadversions 4 Against prelatical Episcopacy This I have not yet seen 5 The reason of Church Government nor this 6 The doctrine and discipline of divorce c. in two books Lond. 1644-45 qu. To which is added in some Copies a translation of The judgment of Mart. Bucer concerning divorce c. It must be now known that after his settlement upon his return from his Travels he in a months time courted married and brought home to his house in London a Wife from Forsthill lying between Halton and Oxford named Mary the Daughter of Mr. Powell of that place Gent. But she who was very young and had been bred in a family of plenty and freedom being not well pleas'd with her Husbands retired manner of life did shortly after leave him and went back in the Country with her Mother Whereupon tho he sent divers pressing invitations yet he could not prevail with her to come back till about 4 years after when the Garrison of Oxâ—n was surrendred the nighness of her Fathers house to which having for the most part of the mean time hindred any communication between them she of her own accord returned and submitted to him pleading that her Mother had been the chief promoter of her frowardness But he being not able to bear this abuse did therefore upon consideration after he had consulted many eminent Authors write the said book of Divorce with intentions to be separated from her but by the compromising of her Relations the matter did not take effect so that she continuing with him ever after till her death he had several Children by her of whom Deborah was the third Daughter trained up by the Father in Lat. and Greek and made by him his Amanuensis 7 Tetrachordon Expositions upon the four chief places in Scripture which treat on marriage on Gen. 1. 27 28. c. Lond. 1646. qu. 8 Colasterion A reply to a nameless answer against the doctrine and discipline of divorce c. printed 1645. qu. Upon his publication of the said three books of Marriage and Divorce the Assembly of Divines then sitting at Westmirster took special notice of them and thereupon tho the Author had obliged them by his pen in his defence of Smectymnus and other their Controversies had with the Bishops they impatient of having the Clergies jurisdiction as they reckon'd it invaded did instead of answering or disproving what those books had asserted cause him to be summoned before the House of Lords but that House whether approving the Doctrine or not favouring his Accusers did soon dismiss him To these things I must add that after his Majesties Restauration when the subject of Divorce was under consideration with the Lords upon the account of John Lord Ros or Roos his separation from his Wife Anne Pierpont eldest Daughter to Henry Marquess of Dorchester he was consulted by an eminent Member of that House as he was about that time by a chief Officer of State as being the prime person that was knowing in that affair 9 Of Education written or addressed to Mr. Sam. Hartlib In this Treatise he prescrib'd an easie and delightful method for the training up of Gentry to all sorts of Literature that they might at the same time by like degrees advance in virtue and abilities to serve their Country subjoyning directions for their obtaining other necessary or ornamental Accomplishments And to this end that he might put it in practice he took a larger house where the Earl of Barrimore sent by his Aunt the Lady Rannelagh Sir Thomas Gardiner of Essex to be there with others besides his two Nephews under his Tuition But whether it were that the tempers of our Gentry would not bear the strictness of his discipline or for what other reasons I cannot tell he continued that course but a while 10 Areopagetica A speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing to the Parliament of England Lond. 1644. qu. written to vindicate the freedom of the Press from the Tyranny of Licensers who for several Reasons deprive the publick of the benefit of many useful Authors 11 Poemata quorum pleraque intra annum aetatis vigesimum conscripsit author c. Lond. 1645. oct 12 A mask printed 1645. oct 13 Poems c. printed the same year Hitherto we find him only to have published political things but when he saw upon the coming of K Charles 1. to his Tryal the Presbyterian Ministers clamorously to assert in their Sermons and Writings the privileges of Kings from all accountableness or to speak in the language of that time Non-resistance and Passive Obedience to be the Doctrine of all the reformed Churches which he took to be only their malignity against the Independents who had supplanted them more than for any principles of Loyalty he therefore to oppose that Thesis which as he conceiv'd did encourage all manner of Tyranny did write and publish from divers Arguments and Authorities 13 The tenure of Kings and Magistrates proving that it is lawful c. to call to account a Tyrant or King and after due conviction to depose and put him to death c. Lond. 1649 50. qu. Soon after the King being beheaded to the great astonishment of all the World and the Government thereupon changed he was without any seeking of his by the endeavours of a private acquaintance who was a member of the new Council of State chosen Latin Secretary as I have before told you In this publick station his abilities and acuteness of parts which had been in a manner kept private were soon taken notice of and he was pitch'd upon to elude the artifice so it was then by the Faction called of Eikon Basilice Whereupon he soon after published 14
Bishop Mast of Arts. Jun. 25. Nathaniel Newbury of Magd. Hall He was afterwards Minister of Ludenham in Kent and published The Yeomans Prerogative Serm. on 2 Chron. chap. 26. ver 10. Lond. 1652. quarto 30. Charles Gataker or Gatacre of Pemb. Coll. lately of the University of Cambridge Jul. 5. Randall Sanderson of Qu. Coll. This person who was a Westmorland man born Fellow of the said Coll. and afterwards Rector of Weyhill in Hampshire and for many years Prebendary of Salisbury hath written and published An explication of the following direction for the reading of the Bible over in a year Also An explanation to the necessary use and practice thereof Both printed in one sheet of paper in qu. He died at Weyhill and was buried there about 1680. July 7. Charles Hoole of Linc. Thom. Hunt of Pembr Coll. 8. Edw. Gee of Brasn Jan. 24. Hen. Hall of Linc. Mar. 3. Rich. Samwaies of C. C. Coll. Adm. 136. Bach. of Phys Jun. 30. Christop Merret of Glouc. Hall Besides him were seven more admitted of whom Nath. Chamberlaine of Pembr Coll. was one which is all I know of him Bach. of Div. Apr. 1. Tho. Washbourne of Ball. Coll. Jun. 25. Herbert Croft of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards B. of Hereford and is this year 1690 living Jul. 8. Edw. Pocock of C. C. 23. Tim. Woodroff of Ball. 28. Hen. Tozer of Exeter Coll. Adm. 18. Doct. of Law May 31. Sam. Gardiner of New Coll. was admitted being then accounted a learned Civilian Doct. of Phys Jul. 7. Valentine Broadbent of Magd. Coll. 15. Sim. Owen of Hart Hall who accumulated the degrees in Physick Doct. of Div. Nov. 18. Thom. Godwin of Magd. Mar. 9. Alexander Gill of Trin. Coll. Incorporations March 26. Assuerus Regimorterus Londino-Anglus Doct. of Phys of the Univ. of Leyden in Holland was incorporated Doctor of the same faculty This person who was educated in School learning under the famous Tho. Farnabie hath extant Disputatio publica de febribus intermittentibus Lugd. Bat. 1635. qu. had a hand in a treatise De Rachitide c. Lond. 1650. oct and hath written as I have been informed by one or more Doctors of his Faculty Principia medicinae He lived and practised in Limestreet in London during the Reign of Oliver One of both his names lived at Northâ—reake in Norfolk and died in 1671 who perhaps was Son of the said Dr. Regimorter Qu. Aug. 31. Walt. Curle Bish of Winchester Math. Wren Bish of Norwich D. D. of Cambr. Of these two I have made mention at large before CREATIONS Aug. 13. Robert Skinner Bishop elect of Bristow lately Fellow of Trin. Coll. and Chaplain in ord to his Majesty Ch. 1. was diplomated or actually created D. of D. by a Diploma then dated under the Seal of the University The King Queen and their respective Courts having been entertained this year by the University on the 29 and 30 of August it was his Majesties pleasure upon his leaving the University which was the 31 of the same month that there should be a Creation in several faculties Whereupon the names of those that made sute to be actually created being given into the hands of the Chancellour by one of the Secretaries of State was a Convocation celebrated on the same day in the Afternoon wherein were actually created two Bachelaurs of Arts two Bach. of Law five and forty Masters of Arts ten Bachelaurs of Divinity three Doctors of the Civ Law three Doctors of Physick and one and twenty Doctors of Divinity The names of some who were so created are these Bach. of Arts. Frederick Sagittarie a German of Queens Coll. Son of Fred. Sag. of Heregord in the Palatinat He was afterwards a created Doct. of Phys of this University and practised his faculty in Dorsetshire John Kingsmyll of Trin. Coll. Son of Sir Hen. Kingsmyll of Sidmanton in Hampshire Knight Mast of Arts. Prince Rupert Count Palatine of the Rhyne and Duke of Bavaria second Son of Frederick Prince Elector of the Empire and King of Bohemia by Princess Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of James 1. King of England was the first person that was actually created Master of Arts. He was afterwards an heroick General under his Uncle K. Ch. 1. when the Civil Wars began in England an 1642 a Knight of the Garter Earl of Holderness and Duke of Cumberland He gave way to fate after he had performed great Exploits at Sea against the Dutch 29 Nov. 1682 aged 63 or thereabouts and was buried in a Vault on the south side of the Chappel of K. Hen. 7. at Westminster leaving then behind him a natural Son usually called Dudley Rupert begotten on the body of one of the Daughters of Hen. Bard Vicount Bellomont which Dudley stiled in Prince Ruperts last Will and Test Dudley Bard was educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School being then a modest and meek-temper'd Youth as was by all there observed But he being not much made for Learning he was bred to Arms I think under Sir Jonas Moor at the Tower and after the Prince's death went into the Palatinate to look after a Legacy and a great House left him there and in Germany and was as 't is said kindly received by the Prince Palatine Soon after going to the Siege of Buda he was kill'd in a desperate Attempt made by some English Gentlemen there upon a breach made in the Walls or Fortifications of that City in July or Aug. 1686. At which time his signal Valour being expressed tho scarce twenty years of age his loss was much lamented Pr. Rupert had also a natural Daughter commonly called The Lady Ruperta begotten as I have been informed at the Office of Arms on the body of one Mrs. Margaret Hewes James Steuart Duke of Lenox in Scotland afterwards of Richmond in England sometimes a Student in Trin Coll. in Cambridge He was slain in the Battel at Keinton commonly called Edghill fight 23 Oct. 1642 and was buried at the upper end of Ch. Ch. Choire in Oxon. Will. Seymour Earl of Hertford He was afterwards Duke of Somerset See more among the Bachelaurs of Arts under the year 1607. Rob. D'evreux Earl of Essex who in the year 1605 had been created M. of A. was now actually created again He was afterwards made Lieutenant General of his Majesties Army when he went his Expedition against the Scots an 1639 Lord Chamberlain of his Houshold and soon after such was the mutability of the man Captain Ceneral of the Army raised by the Parliament against the King He hath Several letters extant written to the Speaker and Parliament during the time that he bore that Office He died 14 Sept. 1646 and was buried in S. Pauls Chappel northward of the Capella Regum in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster Thomas Howard Earl of Berks. He afterwards suffer'd much for the Cause of K. Ch. 1. and dying 16 July 1669 was buried in the Abbey Ch. at Westm Thom. Bruce Earl of Elgin in
He was afterwards Bishop of Corke Cloyne and Ross Archb. of Dublin Chancellour of Ireland and at length Archb. of Armagh Januar. 26. Martin Westcomb Bach. of Arts of the University of Toulouse in France Two Bachelaurs of Arts of Qu. Coll. in Cambridge named Nich. Frost and Tho. Lee were incorporated this year which is all I know of them only that the first proceeded M. of A. in the year following as a member of Ball. Coll. This year among several Cambridge Men that were incorporated Masters of Arts must not be forgotten John Cleaveland the Poet not that it appears so in the publick register but from the relation of a certain Person who was then a Master of this University This Mr. Cleaveland who was the Vicars Son of a Market-town called Hinkley in Leicestershire was born there and in the same town received his Grammatical education under one Mr. Rich. Vines a zealous Puritan where obtaining a perfection in Lat. and Greek learning was sent to Christs Coll. in Cambridge and in short time proving an exquisite Orator and pure Latinist was preferr'd to a Fellowship of St. Johns Coll. in the said University and as the delight and ornament of that house he continued there about nine years and from his Oratory became an eminent Poet. At length upon the eruption of the Civil War he was the first Champion that appear'd in verse for the Kings cause against the Presbyterians for which and his signal Loyalty he was ejected thence Whereupon retiring to Oxon the Kings head quarter lived there for a time and was much venerated and respected not only by the great Men of the Court but by the then Wits remaining among the affrighted and distressed muses for his high Panegericks and smart Satyrs From Oxon he went to Newark upon Trent where he was so highly valued by all especially by the then most loyal and generous Sir Rich. Willis Baronet the Governour of that Garison for his Majesty that he was made Judge Advocate and continued there till the surrender thereof for the use of the Parliament shewing himself a prudent Judge for the King and a faithful Advocate for the Country Afterwards being imprison'd at Yarmouth where he continued in a lingring condition and with little hopes of relief drew up an Address to Oliver Cromwell written in such towring language and so much gallant reason that upon his perusal of he was so much melted down with it that he forthwith ordered his release Afterwards he retired to London where finding a generous Mecaenas setled in Greys Inn in Holbourne and became much admired if not adored by all generous loyalists and ingenious Men. He hath written 1 Poems Lond. in oct there again with additions 1651. oct and several times after 2 Characters 3 Orations 4 Epistles c. Several times also printed At length an intermitting feaver seizing him brought him to his grave in the Church of St. Michael Royal commonly called College-hill Church within the City of London on the first day of May 1658. Soon after were published several Elegies on him particularly that entit Vpon the most ingenious and incomparable Musophilist of his time Mr. John Cleaveland A living memorial of his most devotional Brother and cordial mourner Printed at London on the broad side of a sheet of paper an 1658. 'T was written by his Brother Phil. Cleaveland who tells us there that the said John Cleaveland died 28. April 1658. I have another Elegy lying by me entit An Elegy upon the death of the most excellent Poet Mr. John Cleaveland Printed also on one side of a sheet of paper in May 1658. It was written by Francis Vaux a Servitour of Queens Coll. in Oxon of about 3 years standing the same who printed A Poem in praise of Typography which is all I know of him as having taken no Degree in this University An. Dom. 1638. An. 14. Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. Vicechanc. Accepted Frewen D. D. President of Magd. Coll. and Dean of Glocester Proct. Edw. Corbet of Mert. Coll. Joh. Nicolson of Magd. Coll. Apr. 4. Bach. of Musick July 5. Rob. Lugge Organist of St. Johns Coll. in this University He afterwards went beyond the Seas changed his Religion for that of Rome and was at length as 't is said made Priest Several vocal compositions for the Church go under his name Bach. of Arts. Apr. 7. Anth. Palmer of Ball. Jam. Browne of Oriel Coll. 11. Will. Hughes of New Inn. Robert Mead Hen. Greisley Will. Towers of Ch. Ch. Job Hinkley of St. Alb. 20. Edw. Chamberlayne of S. Ed. Hall May 29. Sam. Harding of Exet. Coll. Job Osborne of New Inn. June 23. Job Biddle of Magd. July 3. Franc. Moore of Gloc. Hall The last of these two I take to be the same Person who was Author of A Funeral Sermon c. on Luke 8. 5. printed 1656. qu. Oct. 13. Tim. Baldwin of Ball. 30. Jam. Baron of Exet. Coll. Of the last of these two you may see among the created Bac. of Div. an 1649. Dec. 3. Miles Smith of Magd. 4. William Hill of Mert. Jan. 24. George Rogers of Line 29. Daniel Whistler of Trin. Coll. Feb. 1. Thom. Greenfield of Pemb. Coll. See among the Masters an 1641. 12. Tho. Jones of Oriel afterwards of Mert. Coll. Most of these Bachelaurs who were all afterwards Writers will be mentioned in the next volume or elsewhere Admitted 224. Bach. of Law June 26. Hen. Coventrie of All 's Coll. This honorable Person who was the only Bach. of Law that was admitted this year was a younger Son of Thomas Lord Coventry Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England and was as it seems before the grand rebellion broke out Chancellour of Landaff Afterwards suffering much for his Majesties Cause was after the restauration of K. Ch. 2. made one of the Grooms of his Bedchamber in Decemb. 1661. and in May 1667 he with Denzill Lord Holles went Embassadors extraordinary from his Majesty of Great Britaine to Breda to consummate a certain Treaty there In Sept. 1671 he went Embassador to Sweden having been an Envoy extraordinary there in 1664 at which time he gave his helping hand to the breaking of the Triple-league and on the 3. July 1672. he was sworn Principal Secretary of State in the room of Sir Joh. Trever deceased Which honorable office he keeping till his body was much broken with business to the beginning of the year 1680 resign'd it with his Majesties leave and retired for health sake to Enfield for a time Whereupon the place of Secretary was bestowed on Sir Liolin Jenkins Knight At length Mr. Covencry giving way to fate in his house situated in the Hâ—ymarket near to Charing-cross in Westminster 5. Dec. 1686 aged 68 years or thereabouts was buried in the Church of St. Martin in the Fields which is all I can speak of him for the present only that he was a native of London Mast of Arts. Apr. 7. Franc. Bampfield of Wadh. 11.
descended from the antient family of the Curwens of Wirkington in Cumberland was born in the Old Baily situated partly in the Parish of S. Sepulchre and partly in S. Martin near Ludgate in the said City on the second day of May 5. Edw. 6. Dom. 1551. When this most eminent person of whom I shall be more particular than of another author was a child he received the first knowledge of letters in Ch. Church hospital in London then newly founded for Blew-coated children where being fitted for Grammer learning he was sent to the Free-school founded by Dr. Colet near to S. Pauls Cathedral About which time 1563. he being infected with the Plague was sent to Islington where he remained for some time to the great loss of his learning In 1566. 8. Elizab. he was sent to Oxford and being placed in Madg. coll in the condition of a Chorister or Servitour did perfect himself in Grammer learning in the Free-School adjoyning then lately presided by D. Tho. Câ—â—per afterwards Bishop of Linc. But missing as 't is said a Demies place of that coll tho of great desert and partly grounded in Logick he was transplanted to an antient hostle called Broadgates now Pembr coll where he continued two years and an half under the tuition of a great encourager of learning called Dr. Tho. Thornton canon of Ch. Ch. who finding our author to be a young man of great vertue and in him tokens of future worth he took him to Ch. Ch. and gave him entertainment in his Lodgings so long as he continued in the University About that time he being a candidate for a Fellowship in All 's coll lost it for desending the religion then established as Dr. afterwards Sir Dan. Donn at that time Fellow did several times testifie and would often relate how our said author Camden was opposed by the Popish party of that house In the month of June 1570. he supplicated the ven Congregation of Regents that whereas he had spent four years in the study of Logick he might he admitted Bach. of Arts but what answer was made thereunto or whether he was then admitted it appears not In 1571. he relinquished his conversation with the Muses to the great reluctancy of those who were well acquainted with the pregnancy of his parts and whether he was afterwards favoured in his Scholastical endeavours by Dr. Gabr. Goodman Dean of Westminster whom he acknowledgeth to have been Patron of his studies I cannot positively affirm In 1573. he returned to Oxon for a time and supplicated again in the beginning of March for the said degree which though as it seems granted and so I presume took it yet he did not compleat it by Determination in Schoolstreet In 1575. he was made second Master of Westminster School upon the recommendations of Godfrey Nephew to Gabriel Goodman before-mentioned which Godfrey put him upon the study of Antiquities and bought and gave him books and in 1581. he contracted an entire friendship with Barnab 〈◊〉 the learned Chief Justice of France called by some 〈…〉 While he continued in teaching at Westm God so blessed his labours that Dr. King Bishop of London Noyle Archb. of York Parry Bishop of St. Asaph c. to say nothing of persons imployed in those times in eminent place abroad and many of special note at home of all degrees did acknowledge themselves to have been his Scholars Besides also as a testimony of his sincere love to the Church of England which some in his time did doubt he brought there to Church divers Gentlemen of Indeed as the Walshes Nugents O-Rayley Shee s the eldest Son of the Archb. of Casshills Pet. Lombard a Merchant's Son of Waterford a Youth of admirable docility the same who was afterwards titular Archb. of Armagh Priâ—ate of Ireland domestick Prelate and Assistant of his Holiness the Pope and author of a book intit De regno Hiberniae Sanctorum Insula commentarius Lov. 1632. qu. and others bred Pâ—pishly and so affected In 1582. he took a journey through Suffolk into Yorkshire and returned through Lancashire in the month of April in order to the compleating of his Britannia which he saith he published in the same year having with great industry at spare hours and on festival days composed it In 1588. Jun. 3. he by the name and tit of Will. Camden Bach. of Arts of Ch. Ch. supplicated the ven Convocation that whereas he had spent 16 years from the time he had taken the degree of Bachelaur in the study of Philosophy and other liberal Aâ—â— he might be dispensed with for the reading of three solemn Lectures and so be admitted to proceed in that 〈◊〉 Which supplication was granted conditionally that he stand in the Act following but whether he was admitted or stood it doth not appear in the Registers In the same month and year he took a journey Oxford being in his way to Ilfarcomb in Devonshire in order to obtain more knowledge in the Antiquities of that Country and elsewhere for the next edition of his 〈◊〉 and on the 6 Feb. following he was made Preb. 〈…〉 in the Ch. of Salisb in the place of one J. Hotman which Prebendship he kept to the time of his death and 〈…〉 succeeded him The said journey and 〈◊〉 that he took for that purpose the charges of them 〈◊〉 defrayed by the aforesaid Dr. Gab. Goodman In 〈◊〉 he journeyed into Wales in the company of Franc. 〈…〉 of Ch. Ch. afterwards author of the Commentary 〈…〉 Bishops and in 1592. Oct. 26. he was taken with a Qaâ—rtan Ague which made him often purge Blood In March 1592-3 he was made chief Master of Westminster School in the place of Dr. Ed. Grant and in 1594. in the month of June he was freed from his Ague In 1596. he travelled to Salisbury and Wells for the obtaining of more knowledge in Antiquities and returned through Oxon where he visited most if not all of the Churches and Chappels for the copying out of the several Monuments and Arms in them which were reduced by him into a book written with his own hand by me seen and perused In 97. he fell into a most dangerous sickness whereupon being taken into the house of one Cuthbert Line he was cured by the care of that persons Wife and in that year he published his Greek Grammar On the 22. of Oct. the same year he was for fashion sake after he had refused a Mastership of the Requests which was offered to him created Herald of Arms called Richmond because no person can be King before he is Herald and the next day he was created Clarenceaux King of Arms in the place of Rich. Lee Esq who died on the 23. of Sept. before-going This was done by the singular favour of Q. Elizabeth at the incessant supplication of his Patron Sir Foulk Grevill afterwards Lord Brook both of them having an especial respect for him and his great learning in English and other
Antiquities In 1600. he took a journey in Summer time to Carlile in the company of the eminent Antiquary Rob. Cotton Esq afterwards a Baronet for the viewing of some Northern Antiquities to be put into another edit of his Britannia and returned not till Dec. following In 1603. 1 Jac. 1. when the Plague raged in London he retired to the house of his Friend Rob. Cotton before-mentioned at Connigton in Huntingdonshire where he remained till the Nativity of our Saviour In 1606. he sent his first Letters to Jac. Aug. Thuanus the most noted Historiographer of France from which time to the death of Thuanus which was in Apr. 1617. there was a constant commerce of Letters between them Our author Camden stiles him Galliae Lumen Historicorum nostri saeculi princeps to whom he had communicated many material matters concerning English affairs which were afterwards remitted into the several books of Histories published by him the said Thuanus In 1607. Sept. 7. he fell from his Horse and dangerously hurt his Leg So that being perfectly lame he kept up till the 4. of July following at which time he went to order set forth and attend the funeral of Sir Joh. Fortescue Knight In 1618. he began to put in order and digest his Annals of Q. Elizabeth and in 1609. being taken with a grievous disease on his birth-day he voided blood twice At which time one being sick of the Plague in the house next to that where he then was he was conveyed to that of Dr. Will. Heather in Westminster and was cured of his disease by Dr. Joh. Gifford sometimes Fellow of New coll in Oxon. Whereupon betaking himself to Chiselhurst in Kent in the month of August he remained there till the 28. of Oct. following In the beginning of the year 1613. at which time he attended the Funeral of Sir Tho. Bodley at Oxon. he had the degree of Master of Arts offered to him but refused as it seems to take it it being then too late to gain any benefit or honour thereby and soon after was made the first Historiographer of Chelsey coll by the Founder thereof In 1619. Jul. 1. his name being then spread over the learned World six Noblemen of Germany gave him a visit at his house in Westminster in whose Albums after they had complemented him for his high worth he at their desire wrote his name and a Latin sentence as a testimony of respect to them which they took for a very great honour and on the 18. of Febr. following he coughed up blood so much that he was left in a manner dead and deprived of all sense At that time Dr. Gifford before-mentioned taking from him â— ounces of blood cured him In 1621. May 5. he by his Deed then bearing date founded the History Lecture of this University Which Deed being published in a Convocation of Regents and Non-Regents on the 17. of May 1622. he was in the year following declared a publick Benefactor of this University of Oxon. In 1622. June 7. he fell again into a most dangerous sickness and on the 16. of Aug. following while he â—â—te musing in his Chair the office of his hands and feet suddenly failed him Whereupon falling on the ground roâ—â— again much distempered and was never afterwards well tiâ—l death conveyed him to the habitation prepared for old age He was a very good natured man was very mild and charitable and nothing was wanting in him for the compleating a good Christian He was an exact Critick and Philologist an excellent Grecian Latinist and Historian and above all a profound Antiquary as his elaborate works testifie All which accomplishments being compacted in a little body made him not only admired at home by the chiefest of the Nobility and the most learned of the Nation but also beyond the Seas particularly by Ortelius Lipsius Dousae Scaliger Tâ—uanus Grutcrus Piereskius Is Casauâ—on Jo. Is Pontanus Fra. Swertius N. Chytreus c. The Epistles of all whom and of divers others of lesser note I have seen in the Cottonian Library and collect thence that he was one of the greatest Scholars of his time as to the learning he professed in Christendon At home I am sure he was esteemed the Pausanius of the British Isles and therefore his same will be permanent so long as this Kingdom is known by the name of Britannia His works are these Britannia sive regâ—orum Angliae Scotiae Hiberniae insularum adjacentium descriptio Lond. 1582. 85. 87. in oct Lond. 1590. 94. and 1600. in qu. Lond. 1607. in fol. Printed with Maps of every County Epitomized by Râ—gnâ—rus Vitellius Zirizaeus Amstel 1639. in twelv The folio edit of 1607. was translated into English by Philemon Holland of Coventry Lond. 1610. fol. revised and amended Lond. 1637. fol. In both which editions are several of Holland's additions scattered in many places This Britannia being much admired in France was also translated into the Language of that Country and printed with Maps in fol. After the first quarto edition came out one Ralph Brook or Brookmonth Herald of Arms by the title of York made answer to it in a book intit A discovery of certain errours published in print in the much commended Britannia Printed 1594. in qu. In which book the said Brookmonth endeavours to make the World believe that Camden composed his Britannia mostly from the Collectanca of Joh. Leland without any acknowledgment and at the end of the said Discovery adds a little thing written by Leland called A New-years-gift given of him to K. Hen. 8. c. Whereupon came out soon after against that busie and envious person for so he was by his society accounted a Vindication or Reply written by Camden in Latin containing about 30 pages in quarto but not said when or where printed You may sometimes find it bound with the Discovery before-mentioned and at other times with the Britannia printed in qu. for by it self I have not yet seen it A certain credulous Historian is pleased to set down in his Church History a copy of verses like a two-edged Sword that cuts on both sides reflecting on Camden for Plagiarism from the said Collectanea But under favour I think they are unworthily spoken and unworthily set down Why is Camden I pray blame-worthy for making use of Leland's Collections Was it because one was originally of Cambridge and the other an Oxford Man Verily I think if the truth could be known that was the chief reason of the Historians carping But let those of his opinion if any there be know that Camden sought not to suppress those collections as Pol. Virgil did certain authors The other works of Camden are these following Institutiâ— Gracae Grammatices compendiaria in usum Regiae Scholae Westmonasteriersis Lond. 1597 c. oct Reges Reginae Nobiles alii in Ecclesiâ collegiatâ B. Petri Westmonasterii sepulti usquâ— ad an 1600. Lond. 1600. and 1606. in about 10 sheets in qu.
that no other Church hath any salvation in it but only so far as it concurs with the Faith of the Church of Rome My body to be buried in S. Marg. Ch. in Westminster near to the Font in the meanest manner according to the deserts of my Sins Item I give 20 s. for the painting or otherwise of the said Font. It. I give my tenement in Yale and the two tenements in Caernarvanshire Cordmaur and Tudne to the Town of Ruthyn in Denbighshire where I was born c. The rent of the tenement in Yale he bequeathed to several uses and among the rest was 20 l. to be given to some Gentleman who should desire to travel and that he together with good security should undertake within the compass of two years to live two months in Germany two months in Italy two months in France and two months in Spain and that his own kindred be chosen before others for that purpose c. The books that he designed for Chelsey college he gave to Trin. coll in Cambridge but with this condition that if Chelsey coll be ever restored the books should be restored thereunto He gave 16 l. to outed and sequestred Ministers of the Loyal Party and a 100 l. to poor distressed Church-men Rom. Catholicks according to the discretion of his Executors Gabriel Goodman and Mrs. Sib. Eglionby He desired also that his collection of notes be perused by some Scholar and if any thing should be found worthy of printing that they be published c. It must be now known that in hate and detestation of Socinianism he did in his younger years examine all the mysteries in Religion and all the miracles in Scripture how far they agreed with natural reason and wherein they transcended and thereupon did publish a book intit The fall of man or the corruption of nature proved by natural reason Lond. 1616. and 1624. qu. And then he undertook to proceed in the rest of the Mysteries Together with these he drew up an History from the beginning of the World to his time and so he ended with the Church of England as seâ—led by Laws little regarding the opinion of particular men but Statutes Acts of State Proclamations Injunctions c. In which work he was much beholding to Sir Tho. Cottons Library But these with the rest of his goods were lost and whether they were ever recovered before his death I know not He hath also written Arguments or animadversions and digressions on a book intit An apology or declaration of the power and providence of God in the government of the World c. written by Dr. George Hakewill Which arguments and digressions are with Hakewills answere involved in the sixth book of the said Apology printed at Oxon the third time 1635. fol. See more in G. Hakewill among the writers an 1649. Bishop Goodman also wrote The Court of K. James by Sir A. W. reviewed 'T is a MS. in a thin fol. in Bodl. Library and hath this beginning I cannot say that I was an eye and ear-witness but truly I have been an observer of the times and what I shall relate of my own knowledge God knows is most true My conjecturals I conceive c. The conclusion which is imperfect is this Yet notwithstanding I have given him Sir A. W. the name of a Knight because he hath pleased so to stile himself and that I might not offend him This manuscript book was made in answer to a published book intit The court and character of King James Lond. 1650. oct written and taken by Sir A. W. Which book being accounted a most notorious Libel especially by the Loyalists and Court-party was also answered in print by Anonymus intit Anlicus Coquinariae or a vindication in answer to a Pamphlet intituled The Court and Character of K. James c. Lond. 1650. The author of the said Court and Character was one Sir Anth. Weldon of Kent whose Parent took rise from Queen Elizabeths Kitchin and left it a legacy for preferment of his Issue Sir Anthony went the same way and by grace of the Court got up to the Green-cloth in which place attending K. James into Scotland he practiced there to libel that Nation Which at his return home was found wrapt up in a Record of that Board and by the hand being known to be his he was deservedly removed from his place as unworthy to eat his bread whose birth-right he had so vilely defamed Yet by favour of the King with a piece of money in his purse and a pension to boot to preserve him loyal during his life tho as a bad creditor he took this course to repay him to the purpose In his life-time he discovered part of this piece to his Fellow-courtier who earnestly disswaded him not to publish so defective and false a scandal which as it seems in Conscience he so declined I have also been credibly informed that Sir A. Weldon did at the beginning of the Long Parliament communicate the MS. of it to the Lady Elizab. Sedley Mother to Sir Will. and Sir Charles accounted a very sober and prudent Woman who after perusal did lay the vileness of it so much to Sir Anthony's door that he was resolved never to make it publick Which perhaps is the reason why a certain author should say that with some regret of what he had maliciously written did intend it for the fire and died repentant tho since stolen to the Press out of a Ladies closet And if this be true our exceptions may willingly fall upon the practice of the publisher of the said libel who by his additions may abuse us with a false story which he discovers to the Reader in five remarkable passages and therefore in some manner gives us occasion to spare our censure on Sir Anthony who was dead some time before the said libel was published The second edition of it printed at Lond. in oct an 1651. is dedicated to the said noble Lady Elizab. Sedley and hath added to it 1 The Court of K. Charles continued unto the beginning of these unhappy times c. 2 Observations instead of a character upon this King from his Childhood 3 Certain Observations before Q. Elizabeths death But these are not animadverted upon by Aulicus Coq or B. Goodman because they came out after they had written their respective answers The said Bishop Goodman hath also written The two mysteries of Christian religion the ineffable Trinity and wonderful incarnation explicated c. Lond 1653. qu. Dedicated by one Epist to Oliver Cromwell L. General and by another to the Master Fellows Scholars and Students of Trin coll in Cambridge Also An Account of his sufferings which is only a little pamphlet printed 1650. BERNARD ADAMS was born in Middlesex in the diocess of London admitted Scholar of Trinity coll in 1583. aged 17 years fellow five years after and when Master of Arts he went into Ireland where by the favour of the Lord
Lieutenant he was consecrated Bishop of Limerick in Apr. 1604. In the year 1606. he by a dispensation kept the See of Kilfenore with it to the year 1617. at which time he voluntarily resign'd it He bestowed much money in repairing the Church of Limerick and in the adorning it with Organs and several Ornaments as also in repairing the house belonging to his See besides other moneys for pious use He died on the 22. of March in sixteen hundred twenty and five and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Limerick where was a monument soon after erected to his memory In the said See succeeded Francis Gough commonly called Goffe whom I shall anon at large mention ARTHUR LAKE sometimes Fellow of New coll was consecrated B. of Bathe and Wells in the month of Dec. 1616. and concluded his last day in sixteen hundred twenty and six year 1626 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See succeeded Dr. Will Laud of whom I shall make mention at large among the writers in the second volume of this work TOBIE MATHEW Son of John Mathew a native of Roos in Herefordshire by his Wife Elianor Croston of Ludlow was born in the city of Bristow in that part of it which is in Somersetshire educated in Grammar learning in the City of Wells became a Student in this University in the beginning of the year 1559. aged 13. years but in what house unless in Vniv. coll the antient members of which have claim'd him as theirs I know not Sure it is that being a Student of Ch. Ch. soon after his first coming he did as a member of that house take the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1563. and three years after that of master and holy orders at which time he was much respected for his great learning eloquence sweet conversation friendly disposition and for the sharpness of his wit In 1569. he was unanimously elected the publick Orator of the University which office he executed with great applause and with no little honour to the University In 1570. he was made Canon of Ch. Ch. and on the 28. Nov. the same year he was admitted Archdeacon of Bathe In 1572. May 15. he became Prebendary of Teynton Regis with Yalmeton in the Church of Salisbury and in July the same year he was elected President of S. Johns coll At which time being much famed for his admirable way of Preaching he was made one of the Queens chaplains in Ordinary and soon after proceeding in Divinity was made Dean of Ch. Ch. 1576. So that then his name sounding high among scholars he deservedly obtain'd the name of Theologus praestantissimus for so he is stiled by the learned Camden who adds that in him doctrina cum pietate ars cum natura certant Eam Campian the Jesuit in his book of Ten Reasons which the R. Catholicks count an Epitomy of all their doctrine labouring to prove that the Fathers were all Papists and to give the uttermost he could to his assertion saith that Thoby Mathew confest to him so much 〈◊〉 saith he c. We did once in a familiar sort sound Th. Mathews opinion he that now domineers in your Pulpits whom for his good learning and seeds oâ— vertue we esteemed c. Which character coming from a Jesuits pen makes it the truer because he was in some manner his Adversary In 1579. he did undergo the office of Vicechancellour of this University and in 1583. he was not only made Chantor of the Church of 〈◊〉 on the resignation of George Carew in the month of June but also Dean of Durham void by the decease of Dr. 〈…〉 In which dignity being installed 31. Aug. he gâ—ve up his Chantorship in Febr. following wherein he was succeeded by Dr. Will. Zouch and in the beginning of the year following his Deanery of Ch. Ch. In 1595. he was to the great joy of many especially those of the Clergy made Bishop of Durham upon the translation of Dr. Math. Hutton to York which was made 24. of March 1594. to which See being consecrated soon after sate there till August an 1606. and then being translated on the 18. of the said month and installed on the 11. of Sept. following in the person of his Proctor sate there in great honour and repute till the time of his death He gave way to sate in a good old age on the 29. of March in sixteen hundred twenty and eight year 1628 and was buried in a chappel behind or beyond the east end of the choire of the Cath. Ch. of York Soon after was a noble monument of black and white marble set up under the great east window of that chappel with his Effigies in his Archiepiscopal robes and an inscription thereon A copy of which containing his just character you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon lib. 2. p. 255. b. 256. a. He hath extant a latin Serm. intit Concio Apologetica contra Edm. Campianum in Deut 32. 7. Oxon. 1638. oct As also a letter to K. Jam 1. which is printed in the Cabala I have been informed that he had several things lying by him worthy of the Press but what became of them after his death I know not nor any thing to the contrary but that they came into the hands of his Son Sir Tobie In the said See of York succeeded Dr. George Mountaigne of Queens coll in Cambridge sometimes a Lecturer in Gresham coll afterwards Master of the Savoy Dean of Westminster in the place of Dr. Neile promoted to the See of Lichf and Cov. in which dignity he was install'd in Dec. 1610. Bishop of Lincolne to which he was consecrated 14. Dec. 1617. and then of London being translated to that place 20. July 1621. In the latter end of 1627. he was translated to Durham whence after he had sate three months he was translated to York in the place of Mathew as I have before told you to which See being elected 16. June was inthronized therein 24. Oct. 1628. But he expiring soon after in the year of his age 59. six months and two days was buried in the chancel belonging to the Church of Cawood in Yorksh in which parish he was born and had soon after a comely monument set up to his memory at the charge of Isaac his brother Curator of his last Will and Test in the north wall of the said chancel containing his bust in his lawn sleeves with a large inscription under it All which especially the verses were made by Hugh Holland the Poet. After him succeeded in the said See Dr. Sam. Harsnet Bishop of Norwych sometimes Master of Pembr hall in Cambridge who being elected thereunto on the 26. of Novemb. 1628 was inthronized 23. April following He died on the 12. of March 1630. being then Privy Counsellour to his Majesty at Moreton in Marsh in Glocestershire in his return from Bathe to his Mannour of Southwell in Nottinghamshire Whereupon